Saramago

[sah-ruh-mah-goo]

noun

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

Saramago

/ 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

Example Sentences

But Isaac is a literature guy, toting around a paperback of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s “Blindness” to underscore that neither one of them sees their mismatch clearly.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Reuters

Despite its Kafkaesque opening, “The Last White Man” plays closer to the register of José Saramago.

From Washington Post

“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

In José Saramago’s “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis,” you will find Ricardo Reis, another of Pessoa’s fictional authors, back in Lisbon in late December 1935.

From New York Times