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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2023

Read them all; just make sure you save some time for Saramago, and Cheever, before you die.

From New York Times • May 14, 2020

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

In his novel “Blindness,” José Saramago asks us to imagine a world where one by one, people lose their sight.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2016

As it happens, I have a sudden rage to read a work of fiction about a proofreader: “The History of the Siege of Lisbon,” by José Saramago, translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2015

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