Jose Saramago

Hi readers, now I am going to do an article about Jose Saramago. He won the Nobel Price of the literature in 1998 and was a very famous novelist in the world.

José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, poet, playwright and journalist. His parents were José de Sousa and Maria de Piedade. "Saramago", a wild herbaceous plant known in English as the wild radish, was his father's family's nickname, and was accidentally incorporated into his name upon registration of his birth. 

Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. The announcement came when he was about to fly to Germany ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and caught both him and his editor by surprise.
More than two million copies of his books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. The Nobel committee praised his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony", and his "modern scepticism" about official truths.

Saramago died on 18 June 2010, aged 87, having spent the last few years of his life in Lanzarote, Spain.

I chose to describe the Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago because he was a very important and famous novelist in the world, and also because he died the last year and for to do like a small tribute.

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