José Saramago
José Saramago (1922 – 2010) — Portugal, writing in Portuguese. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
“who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.” — The Nobel Committee citation
About José Saramago
A Portuguese novelist, the first from his country to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His signature style — long sentences, sparse punctuation and dialogue run together without line breaks — immerses the reader in an unbroken flow of thought.