WRITER

José Saramago

1922 - 2010

José Saramago

José de Sousa Saramago (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the most gifted novelist alive in the world today" and in 2010 said he considers Saramago to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone both wise and ignorant." More than two million copies of Saramago's books have been sold in Portugal alone and his work has been translated into 25 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Saramago has received more than 1,482,496 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). José Saramago is the 89th most popular writer (up from 98th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Writer.

José Saramago is a Portuguese novelist, playwright, and poet. He is most famous for his novels The Stone Raft, Blindness, and The Double.

Memorability Metrics

1.5M
Page Views (PV)
77.80
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
108
Languages Editions (L)
12.90
Effective Languages (L*)
3.71
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera

Blindness, Fiction, Ficción

A guy going back to he's house after work, suddenly goes blind while on a red light on his car. He cannot understand what is happening, he just can't see anything. Unlike any blindness his, is white. All he can see is just white. No body is worried, he must just have any kind of temporal blidness or maybe he need some rest. The next day he goes to the eye doctor to see if he can tell him what is it he's suffering from, but the doctor sees what he descibes as some healthy eyes. Soon after that a couple more cases are reported of people whi have just all of the sudden become blind. But not jus any kind of blindness, the all are infected by the white blindness. One of those trhiling book you just don't want to put down. Saramago's ability to take through the hole history without telling the actual name of any of the characters is just amazing. And the way he explores the interactions and caos in the society is just brilliant. Higly recomended.

1998

Ensaio sobre a cegueira

Blind, Blindness, Fiction

1995

El Hombre Duplicado

1998

Historia del Cerco de Lisboa

Proofreading, Fiction, History

1990

Memorial del Convento

1995

A jangada de pedra

1980

Page views of José Saramagos by language

Over the past year José Saramago has had the most page views in the Spanish wikipedia edition with 220,002 views, followed by English (172,559), and Portuguese (171,557). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kazakh (246.35%), Kirghiz (171.32%), and Hakka (154.13%)