José Saramago
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Who was José Saramago?
Portuguese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 for works including "Blindness" and "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ."
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on José Saramago (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Awards & Honors
| Award | Year | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Literature | 1998 | who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality |
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Nobel Prizes in 1998
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