José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Azinhaga
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Turin🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Brasília🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Santiago, Chile🏆 Grand Collar of the Order of Camões🏆 Q130553019
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them."
"After all, we are always on time, behind time, in time, but never out of time, no matter how often we are told that we are."
"I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do."
"A man must read widely, a little of everything or whatever he can, but given the shortness of life and the verbosity of the world, not too much should be demanded of him. Let him begin with those titl…"
"sympathy for the suffering it went through during the Holocaust. … Living under the shadows of the Holocaust and willing to be forgiven for anything they do on behalf of what they have suffered seems …"
"Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical, stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. We s…"
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Timeline
1922
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