Jose Saramago

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.

• 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

• "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