Josè Saramago

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José de Sousa Saramago, (pronounced|ʒuˈzɛ sɐɾɐˈmagu; janam 16 November 1922 - 18 June 2010) ek Portuguese writer, playwright aur journalist rahaa.

Saramago ke 1998 me Nobel Prize for literature dewa gais rahaa. Uu abhi Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain me rahe hae.

Saramago ke janam Azinhaga, Portugal me bhaes rahaa.

Saramago ke saadi 1944 me Ilda Reis  se bhaes rahaa. Uske ekke larrka, Violante, ke janam 1947 me bhaes rahaa. 1988 se , Saramago  Spanish journalist Pilar del Río se saadi karis hae jon ki uske book ke Spanish bhasa me translate kare hae.

José Saramago mid-fifties me rahaa jab ki uske book  Baltasar and Blimunda famous bhaes  aur iske khatir uske Portuguese PEN Club Award bhi milaa.

Saramago 1969 se Portuguese Communist Party ke member hae,http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/bio-bibl.html Nobel Prize citation, 1998  aur uu atheistbhi hae and self-described pessimist. Uske bichar bahut controvery cause kare hae, jaaada kar ke uske  biik The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.

 Themes 
Saramago uses for his works fantastic scenarios. In his 1986 novel, The Stone Raft, the Iberian Peninsula breaks off from the rest of Europe and sails about the Atlantic Ocean. In his 1995 novel, Blindness, an entire country is stricken with a mysterious plague called “white blindness”.

 Bibliography 
TitleYearEnglish titleYearISBNTerra do Pecado 1947 Os Poemas Possíveis 1966  Provavelmente Alegria 1970  Deste Mundo e do Outro 1971  A Bagagem do Viajante 1973 As Opiniões que o DL teve 1974  O Ano de 1993 1975  Os Apontamentos 1976  Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia 1977Manual of Painting and Calligraphy 1993 ISBN 1-85754-043-3Objecto Quase 1978  Levantado do Chão 1980  Viagem a Portugal 1981Journey to Portugal 2000ISBN 0-15-100587-7Memorial do Convento 1982Baltasar and Blimunda 1987ISBN 0-15-110555-3O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis 1986The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis 1991 ISBN 0-15-199735-7A Jangada de Pedra 1986The Stone Raft 1994 ISBN 0-15-185198-0História do Cerco de Lisboa 1989The History of the Siege of Lisbon1996 ISBN 0-15-100238-XO Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo 1991The Gospel According to Jesus Christ 1993 ISBN 0-15-136700-0Ensaio sobre a Cegueira 1995Blindness 1997 ISBN 0-15-100251-7Todos os Nomes 1997All the Names 1999 ISBN 0-15-100421-8O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida 1997The Tale of the Unknown Island 1999 ISBN 0-15-100595-8A Caverna 2001The Cave 2002 ISBN 0-15-100414-5O Homem Duplicado 2003The Double 2004 ISBN 0-15-101040-4)Ensaio sobre a Lucidez 2004Seeing 2006 ISBN 0-15-101238-5Don Giovanni ou o Dissoluto Absolvido 2005  As Intermitências da Morte 2005Death at Intervals 2008 ISBN 1-84655-020-3As Pequenas Memórias 2006  

 References 

 Bibliography 
 Baptista Bastos, José Saramago : Aproximação a um retrato, Dom Quixote, 1996
 T.C. Cerdeira da Silva, Entre a história e aficção : Uma saga de portugueses, Dom Quixote, 1989
 Maria da Conceição Madruga, A paixão segundo José Saramago : a paixão do verbo e o verbo da paixão, Campos das Letras, Porto, 1998
 Horácio Costa, José Saramago : O Período Formativo, Ed. Caminho, 1998
 Helena I. Kaufman, Ficção histórica portuguesa da pós-revolução, Madison, 1991
 O. Lopes, Os sinais e os sentidos : Literatura portuguesa do século XX, Lisboa, 1986
 Carlos Reis, Diálogos com José Saramago, Ed. Caminho, Lisboa, 1998
 M. Maria Seixo, O essencial sobre José Saramago, Imprensa Nacional, 1987
 "Saramago, José (1922-)." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Tracie Ratiner. Vol. 25. 2nd ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005. Discovering Collection. Thomson Gale. University of Guelph. 25 Sep. 2007

 Duusra websites 
 The Unexpected Fantasist, a portrait of José Saramago, written by Fernanda Eberstadt and published August 26, 2007 in The New York Times Magazine
 Introduction and video of Saramago from "Heroes de los dos bandos" -spanish civil war-
 Interviews with Saramago in video 
 José Saramago from Pegasos
 Translation of interview with Saramago in El País - 12-Nov-2005

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