José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago was born in Azinagha, Portugal, on 16 November 1922 and died in Tias, in the Canary Islands, on 18 June 2010. Due to financial difficulties, he was forced to abandon his studies and continued to teach himself. His opposition to the Salazar regime cost him the censorship of his journalistic writings. After publishing several novels and collections of poems, success came with “Convent Memorial”. In 1998, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.