1998 何塞-萨拉马戈 葡萄牙

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José Saramago
Facts
José Saramago
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
José Saramago
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998

Born: 16 November 1922, Azinhaga, Portugal

Died: 18 June 2010, Lanzarote, Spain

Residence at the time of the award: Portugal

Prize motivation: "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."

Language: Portuguese

Prize share: 1/1

Life
José Saramago became a full-time author in his fifties. Before that he worked as a car mechanic and a journalist, among other things. His international breakthrough came with the novel Baltasar and Blimunda, published in 1982. Saramago was an atheist and politically involved in the Communist Party in Portugal, which is reflected in his literary output. His writings were controversial in his native country, and consequently Saramago came to settle on Lanzarote later in life.

Work
José Saramago frequently makes use of allegory in his writing, and fanciful elements are interspersed with a detailed and critical look at society. A characteristic of Saramago’s style is the blending of dialog and narration, with sparse punctuation and long sentences that can extend for several pages. In one of his most successful novels, Blindness (1995), the population is stricken with an epidemic of blindness that quickly leads to societal collapse.



何塞-萨拉马戈
事实
何塞-萨拉马戈
照片来自诺贝尔基金会档案。
何塞-萨拉马戈
1998年诺贝尔文学奖获得者

出生：1922年11月16日，葡萄牙阿辛哈加

逝世：2010年6月18日，西班牙兰萨罗特岛

获奖时的居住地。葡萄牙

颁奖动机。"他以想象力、同情心和讽刺性支撑的寓言，不断地使我们再次领悟到一种难以捉摸的现实"。

语言。语言：葡萄牙语

奖金份额。1/1

生平
何塞-萨拉马戈在50多岁时成为一名全职作家。在此之前，他做过汽车修理工和记者等工作。他的国际突破来自于1982年出版的小说《巴尔塔萨和布利蒙达》。萨拉马戈是一个无神论者，在政治上参与了葡萄牙共产党，这在他的文学作品中有所体现。他的著作在他的祖国引起了争议，因此萨拉马戈在生命的后期来到兰萨罗特岛定居。

作品
何塞-萨拉马戈在他的写作中经常使用寓言，幻想的元素穿插在对社会的详细和批判中。萨拉马戈风格的一个特点是对话和叙述的融合，标点符号稀少，长句子可以延长到几页。在他最成功的小说之一《失明》（1995年）中，人们遭遇了失明的流行病，很快导致了社会的崩溃。