As you may already know, the great Portuguese writer Joseph Saramago He passed away today at his home in Lanzarote, at the age of 87 years. its magnificent construction site literary and his sharp thought has highlighted him, and from we did not want to stop paying tribute to this great man of the culture. We propose a review of your Biography.
Jose Saramago Mora was born on November 16, 1922, in Azinhaga, Portugal. In fact, his last name must have been Soudabut was incorrectly registered on his birth certificate, leaving his name on Saramago, his family nickname. At the young age of two they moved to Lisbon.
In his youth he practiced different trades before entering the world of literature. He was a locksmith, a mechanic and, getting closer to his true vocation, he also worked as an editor and journalist. In 1947 the time came for him to enter the literary world with the publication of his novel land of sin. By then he had already married his wife, a painter Ilda Reyes.
From then on, several years went by without editing. plays own, although it is worth clarifying that he wrote a novel, Skylight ends that would never be published. His return came from the hand of the poemswith works published between 1966 and 1975: possible poems, probably joy Y the year of 1993. Later she approached the novel and also made several theatrical texts.
In 1982 he made an important leap in his career, through the popularity he gained with convent memorial. Later, he consolidated his well-deserved prestige with the stone raft (1986), the stage piece The second life of Francis of Assisi (1987), History of the Lisbon Siege (1989). In 1991 she published the famous and widespread work The Gospel according to Jesus Christ.
From 1993, Joseph Saramago lived in the Canary Island of Lanzarote. There he composed a new play In nomine Dei. Two years later, the publication of the trilogy made up of the titles essay on blindness, All the names Y essay on lucidity.
throughout his career Joseph Saramago was awarded many very prestigious awards, and in 1998 came the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the last years of his life, he published The cavern (2000) and Cain (2009).
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