Question: Which languages did José Saramago speak?
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The José Saramago Foundation announced in October 2011 the publication of a so-called "lost novel" published as "Skylight" ("Claraboia" in Portuguese).
It was written in the 1950s and remained buried in the archive of a publisher to whom the manuscript had been sent.
Saramago remained silent about the work up to his death.
The book has been translated to several languages. 
valter hugo mãe( which he intentionally writes in smalls caps, like his own work), was born in Henrique de Carvalho, in colonial Angola.
He spend his childhood in Paços de Ferreira, and in 1980 he moved to Vila do Conde.
He graduated in Law, and did post-graduate work in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese literature.valter hugo mãe achieved public recognition in 2007 by winning the José Saramago Prize.
During the prize ceremony José Saramago called the novel "o remorso de baltazar serapião" a true literary tsunami.
Besides writing, he has dedicated effort to drawing, with a first public exhibition in 2007 in Oporto, and to music, being the singer in the band O Governo. 
Saramago did not achieve widespread recognition and acclaim until he was sixty, with the publication of his fourth novel, "Memorial do Convento".
A baroque tale set during the Inquisition in 18th-century Lisbon, it tells of the love between a maimed soldier and a young clairvoyant, and of a renegade priest's heretical dream of flight.
The novel's translation in 1988 as Baltasar and Blimunda (by Giovanni Pontiero) brought Saramago to the attention of an international readership.
This novel won the Portuguese PEN Club Award.
Saramago joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969 and remained a member until the end of his life.
He was a self-described pessimist.
His views aroused considerable controversy in Portugal, especially after the publication of "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ".
Members of the country's Catholic community were outraged by Saramago's representation of Jesus and particularly God as fallible, even cruel human beings.
Portugal's conservative government, led by then-prime minister Cavaco Silva, did not allow Saramago's work to compete for the Aristeion Prize, arguing that it offended the Catholic community.
As a result, Saramago and his wife moved to Lanzarote, an island in the Spanish Canaries.
The European Writers' Parliament (EWP) came about as a result of a joint proposal by Saramago and fellow Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.
Saramago was expected to speak as the guest of honour at the EWP, but he died before the opening ceremony in 2010. 
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE (; 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.
Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him 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.
"More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages.
A proponent of libertarian communism, Saramago was criticized by institutions such as the Catholic Church, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, with whom he disagreed on various issues.
An atheist, he defended love as an instrument to improve the human condition.
In 1992, the Government of Portugal under Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva ordered the removal of "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" from the Aristeion Prize's shortlist, claiming the work was religiously offensive.
Disheartened by this political censorship of his work, Saramago went into exile on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, upon which he resided until his death in 2010.
Saramago was a founding member of the National Front for the Defence of Culture in Lisbon in 1992, and co-founder with Orhan Pamuk, of the European Writers' Parliament (EWP). 
  Nobel Prize for Literature: José Saramago  Europe Theatre Prize: Luca Ronconi