jose saramago

Portuguese writer Jose Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, and a kind of surrealistic novels of peasant mock trials combining pragmatism, died at home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, his publisher said on Friday. He was 87.The publisher, Zeferino Coelho, told the Portuguese newspaper Publico that Mr. Saramago's health had deteriorated after a recent illness, but did not provide further details according to the Associated Press.Mr. Saramago, a long, narrow commandingly man dry, didactic manner, gained international acclaim for novels such as "Baltasar and Blimunda" and "blindness". (The film version of "Blindness" by the Brazilian director Fernando Mireilles was in 2008.)Mr. Saramago was the first Portuguese writer won the Nobel Prize and more than two million copies of his books are sold, said Mr Coelho.

In 1975, the Communist-led revolution against the coup in Portugal overthrew the previous year, and Mr. Saramago dismissed the deputy editor of the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias. At night, as well as other well-known left-wing, can be used effectively. "This was the best of happiness in my life," he said in an interview with the 2007th "This has became a writer."The first big success was a gay love story "Baltasar and Blimunda." 18 Set century Portugal, the novel of the adventures of a trio of eccentrics endanger the Inquisition: the heretic priest, who is with a flying machine, and the two lovers are shown to help him - with one ex-soldier and a sorceress, the daughter of X-ray vision.The novel, published an English translation in 1987, Mr. Saramago was a passionate international following. The critical Irving Howe, the union praised the "hard realism" and "lyrical fantasy," the author as "a voice of skepticism in Europe, a connoisseur of irony."