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• Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago worked as a journalist and translator for decades before becoming a world-renowned fiction writer in the 1980s. His novels explore the human condition through unlikely and often supernatural situations. His 1995 novel, Blindness, was adapted into a 2008 film by director Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth name: José de Sousa Saramago
  2. Born: November 16, 1922
  3. Birthplace: Azinhaga, Golega, Portugal
  4. Spouse: Pilar del Río (1988 - present)
  5. 1995: Awarded the Camoes Prize
  6. 1998: Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureNobel Prize.org: Jose Saramago

• Notable Works

  • 1977: Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia
  • 1980: Levanto do Chao
  • 1982: Baltasar and Blimunda
  • 1984: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
  • 1986: The Stone Raft
  • 1987: The Second Life of Francis of Assisi
  • 1989: The History of Siege of Lisbon
  • 1991: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
  • 1995: Blindness
  • 1997: All the Names
  • 2001: La Caverna
  • 2002: El hombre duplicado

• Quotes

  • "Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters."Webster University: Bob Corbett on Saramago's The Cave

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  Blindness Movie | Fernando Meirelles | Nobel Prize

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