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José de Sousa Saramago: Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Author.

In 1982, a novel called Memorial do Convento was published in Portugal. A love story set against 18th-century Inquisitorial Lisbon, the novel captured the imagination of many readers, garnering widespread acclaim. Its author, then sixty year old José Saramago, was not known for literature, but for journalism. With this novel, his fourth to be published,Continue reading “José de Sousa Saramago: Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Author.”