José Saramago - Death at Intervals

I would like to thank José Saramago, Tânia Ganho, Ben Sherriff and Maartje de Kort for all their help and advice.

José Saramagowas born in Portugal in 1922 and became a full-time writer in 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, which have been translated into forty languages and have established him as one of Portugal’s most influential writers. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. José Saramago died on 18 June 2010.

Margaret Jull Costahas translated works by Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, and José Régio, as well as a number of leading Spanish writers. Her translation of José Saramago’s All the Names won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

The Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

Baltasar and Blimunda

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Blindness

All the Names

The Tale of the Unknown Island

The Stone Raft

The Cave

The Double

Journey to Portugal

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