- Date de naissance
- Date de décès18 juin 2010 · Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Espagne (défaillance multiviscérale)
- Nom de naissanceJosé de Sousa Saramago
- José Saramago est né le 16 novembre 1922 à Azinhaga, Golega, Portugal. Il était scénariste. Il est connu pour Enemy (2013), Blindness (2008) et O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. Il était marié à Pilar del Río, Isabel da Nóbrega et Ilda Reis. Il est mort le 18 juin 2010 en Espagne.
- ConjointsPilar del Río(1988 - 18 juin 2010) (son décès)Isabel da Nóbrega(1970 - 1986) (divorcé)Ilda Reis(1944 - 1970) (divorcé, 1 enfant)
- He was the first Portuguese writer to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
- His father's last name was de Sousa, whose nickname was Saramago, the name of a wild plant. This nickname was mistakenly entered on José's birth certificate.
- His first novel was published when he was 23. He essentially stopped writing for 30 years, during which time he worked at a garage, a welfare agency, and a printing company, among other jobs.
- He was raised mostly by his rural grandparents, while his parents looked for work in Lisbon. He credited his illiterate grandparents with instilling in him a love of folklore and fantasy, and respect for nature.
- His wife Pilar is a Spanish journalist.
- [In 2007 in an interview with New York Times about being fired from the Deputy Editor of the Lisbon newspaper, "Diario De Noticias" because of his leftist views] Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
- [About his name change to Saramago in a 2007 interview] My father wasn't very happy, but if that was his son's official name, well, then he had to take it.
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