Saramago was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in 1992. In 2007, Saramago founded his namesake foundation, José Saramago Foundation.
José Saramago (born , Azinhaga, Portugal—died , Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain) was a Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. The son of rural labourers, Saramago grew up in great poverty in Lisbon.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 was awarded to José Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality"
My parents were called José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. José de Sousa would also have been my name if the civil registry official, on his own initiative, had not added the nickname for which my father's family was known in the village: Saramago.
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
José de Sousa Saramago ComSE GColSE GColCa (Azinhaga, 16 de novembro de 1922 – Tías, 18 de junho de 2010 [2]) foi um escritor português premiado com o Nobel de Literatura de 1998. Também ganhou, em 1995, o Prémio Camões, [3] o mais importante prémio literário da língua portuguesa.
He founded the National Front for the Defense of Culture (Lisbon, 1992) with among others Freitas-Magalhaes. Saramago was born in Portugal but later moved to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, residing there with his Spanish wife, journalist Pilar del Río, until his death in 2010.