The Tale of the Unknown Island

Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time – Walter Haubrich * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life – John UpdikeNo candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist – Edmund WhiteHe was the equal of Philip Roth, Günter Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile - he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy – Harold BloomSaramago is a writer of formidable talent and extraordinary imagination * La Repubblica *To speak of the novels of José Saramago is to speak of the sheer pleasure of reading * O Diario, Lisbon *

Jose Saramago is one of the most important international writers of the last hundred years. Born in Portugal in 1922, he was in his sixties when he came to prominence as a writer with the publication of Baltasar and Blimunda. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages, and in 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Saramago died in June 2010.

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