José Saramago
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José Saramago
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998
Born: 16 November 1922, Azinhaga, Portugal
Died: 18 June 2010, Lanzarote, Spain
Residence at the time of the award: Portugal
Prize motivation: "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
Language: Portuguese
Prize share: 1/1
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