José Saramago

José Saramago was born on 16 November 1922 in Azinhaga, in the Ribatejo, into a peasant family. For lack of money, he left secondary school to train as a mechanic-locksmith, worked as an office clerk, then spent twelve years in publishing, from 1959 to 1971, before turning to journalism. A member of the clandestine Communist Party in 1969, deputy editor of the Diário de Notícias in 1975, he lost that post in November and was recognised as a novelist only around the age of sixty. He settled in Lanzarote in 1993 after a controversy with the Portuguese government, won the Nobel Prize in 1998, and died there on 18 June 2010.

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• NovelBaltasar and BlimundaMemorial do ConventoJosé Saramago · 1982Literature