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Saramago

American  
[sah-ruh-mah-goo] / ˌsɑ rəˈmɑ gʊ /

noun

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


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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It is his conversations with fellow city solitaries that unveil smaller revelations, and Saramago casts the transformation of his protagonist in existential terms as Senhor José’s search becomes a project in itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023

“Blindness,” which I saw Sunday, is the tale, based on a novel by Jose Saramago, of an epidemic that renders an entire nation blind, except for the narrator.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2021

And “Blindness,” an immersive audio adaptation of the dystopian novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago, began.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2021

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

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