@import "../../Volume3Issue1/colright3-1.css"; @import "../../Volume3Issue1/colright3-1.css"; Featured Author José Saramago José Saramago , a Portuguese writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998. In one sense it could even be said that, letter-by-letter, word-by-word, page-by-page, book after book, I have been successively implanting in the man I was the characters I created. I believe that without them I wouldn't be the person I am today; without them maybe my life wouldn't have succeeded in becoming more than an inexact sketch, a promise that like so many others remained only a promise, the existence of someone who maybe might have been but in the end could not manage to be. (from Nobel Lecture Saramago was born in Azinhaga, in the province of Ribatejo. He was forced to abandon school in order to earn his living. Saramago was educated as a technician, and before becoming a journalist, translator, and writer, he held a number of manual jobs. In 1969, he joined the Communist Party of Portugal, which was forbidden during the military dictatorship, but he also criticized the party. In the 1970s, Saramago supported himself mostly by translation works, and since 1979 he devotes himself entirely to writing. The author lives in the Canary Islands. Saramago has published plays, short stories, novels, poems, libretti, diaries, and travelogues. His first novel, MANUEL DE PINTURA E CALIGRAFIA, appeared in 1977. Its basic theme is the genesis of the artist, as a painter as well as a writer. LEVANTADO DO CHO (1980) was a three generation saga of a poor sharecropper family from the post-World War I period through 25 April 1974, the date of the Portugese revolution. The story is presented through mixed forms of monologue and dialogue. | |
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