Blindness (Portuguese: "Ensaio sobre a cegueira" , meaning "Essay on Blindness") is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.
 It is one of his most famous novels, along with "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" and "Baltasar and Blimunda".
 In 1998, Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and "Blindness" was one of his works noted by the committee when announcing the award.
The José Saramago Foundation is a cultural private institution located in the Casa dos Bicos, in Lisbon (Portugal).
 A smaller branch is opened in Azinhaga do Ribatejo, home village of José Saramago, the Portuguese Nobel Prize in Literature 1998.
 Founded by the writer in June 2007, its main institutional principles are to defend and spread the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the promotion of culture in Portugal as well as in all the countries, and particular concerns about environmentalism.
Giovanni Pontiero (10 February 1932 – 10 February 1996) was a British scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction, most notably the works of José Saramago.
 His translation of the Saramago work "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for Portuguese translation.
Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Javier Marías, Bernardo Atxaga, José Régio and Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
José and Pilar ("José e Pilar" ) is a Portuguese documentary directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes following the last years of the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, chiefly through his relationship with his resolute wife, Pilar del Río.
 Highly praised by the critics and the audience, the film seems to have accomplished to show the tenderness, the genuine integrity and the deeply concerned humanity behind such controversial figure and his spouse.
 It gathers sequences from Madrid to Helsinki to Rio de Janeiro and covers Jose and Pilar's life in Lanzarote, their trips around the world (presenting José's books, signing autographs, making speeches) and their most simple, transient and quotidian moments, as for during the period José writes his "The Elephant's Journey".
 The film was produced by Miguel Mendes' JumpCut (Portugal), Fernando Meirelles's O2 and Pedro Almodóvar's El Deseo.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (original title: "O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo", 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.
 A fictional re-telling of Jesus Christ's life, depicting him as a flawed, humanised character with passions and doubts.
 The novel proved controversial, especially among the Roman Catholic Church, accusing Saramago of having a "substantially anti-religious vision".
 It was praised by other critics as a "deeply philosophical, provocative and compelling work".
Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions is the production company created in 1996 by Amy Sherman-Palladino to produce "Love and Marriage."
 The company also produced "Gilmore Girls", "The Return of Jezebel James", and "Bunheads".
 The name "Dorothy Parker Drank Here" is tribute to writer Dorothy Parker, a major influence on Palladino.
José de Sousa Saramago, (] ; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor.
 In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant."
Blindness is a 2008 Brazilian-Canadian film, an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by Portuguese author José Saramago about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness.
 The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as the main characters.
 Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city.
 "Blindness" premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and the film was released in the United States on October 3, 2008.
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

Question: Who died more recently, Dorothy Parker or José Saramago?
Answer: José de Sousa Saramago