![]() ![]() He was educated as a technician, and beforeīecoming a journalist, translator, and writer, he did a number of Where his grandparents, illiterate peasants, lived and took care ofĪt an early age, Saramago was forced to abandon school in order toĮarn his living. ![]() During school holidays, he returned to Azinhaga, Saramago's father took a job as traffic policeman and his mother workedĪs a domestic cleaner. When Saramago was two, the family moved to Lisbon. ![]() Son of José de Sousa, an artilleryman in the first world war, and Mariaĭe Piedade. José Saramago was born in Azinhaga, in the province of Ribatejo, the In the end could not manage to be." (from Nobel Lecture, 1998) Only a promise, the existence of someone who maybe might have been but Than an inexact sketch, a promise that like so many others remained Without them maybe my life wouldn't have succeeded in becoming more I believe that without them I wouldn't be the person I am today Letter-by-letter, word-by-word, page-by-page, book after book, I haveīeen successively implanting in the man I was the characters I created. "In one sense it could even be said that, Illusions, are the subject of my novels," Saramago once said. "The possibility of the impossible, dreams and Have been António Lobo Antunes, and José Cardoso Pires. Other names from Portugal, often mentioned in Nobel Prize speculations, José Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998. Portuguese writer, who combined in his work myths, history of his own country, and surrealistic imagination. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ![]()
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