Saramago

American  

[sah-ruh-mah-goo] / ˌsɑ rəˈmɑ gʊ /

noun

1. José 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel Prize 1998.

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Saramago British  

/ ˌsaraˈmɑɡo /

noun

1. José. 1922–2010, Portuguese novelist and writer; his works include the novel O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (1984): Nobel prize for literature 1998

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Saramago

It was previously given to writers such as Portugal's Jose Saramago and Mozambique's Paulina Chiziane.

From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023

“In 1936, I was 14 years old, but I remember the sadness of the city,” Saramago once said about what inspired this novel.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

Furthermore, Le Guin cites the blog of the Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago as inspiration for her own, and Saramago’s online musings were later collected as a book of small but high regard, titled “The Notebook.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2017

Looking for fictional representations of bureaucracy, Graeber comes up with a small list of writers who have tackled the subject: Franz Kafka, Stanislaw Lem, Joseph Heller, Ismail Kadare, David Foster Wallace, José Saramago.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2016

“The journey never ends,” José Saramago once wrote.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2014