Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira by José Saramago

More in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.'الأكثر رعبا من العمي. Saramago was married twice, to Ilda Reis in 1944, and to Pilar del Rio in 1988 he is survived by his wife and a daughter from his first marriage.įull obituary in the July issue of Locus. After the Portuguese government prevented his novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, from competing for the European Literary Prize, Saramago left Portugal, relocating to the Canary Islands in 1992. Saramago was an outspoken Communist and atheist, views which sometimes brought him into conflict with conservative Catholic elements in Portugal. His works have since been translated into more than 25 languages.

After the overthrow of the nascent Portugese Communist revolution in 1975, Saramago focused on writing fiction.

He worked as a journalist and translator, and was an editor at newspaper Diario de Lisboa. Saramago was born Novemin Azinhaga Portugal, and grew up in Lisbon. Many of his works dealt with fantastic themes, notably allegorical novel Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (1995 in English as Blindness, 1997), about a nameless country whose citizens are all stricken with blindness. Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 he was the first Portuguese-language author to receive this honor. Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago, 87, died Friday June 18, 2010, at home on the island of Lanzarote in the Spanish Canary Islands, after a long illness.

Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira by José Saramago