1922 - 2010
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 103 different languages on Wikipedia. José Saramago is the 98th most popular writer (down from 95th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 5th 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.
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Among writers, José Saramago ranks 98 out of 5,755. Before him are Jean de La Fontaine, Knut Hamsun, George Bernard Shaw, George Sand, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Ismail I. After him are Theodor Herzl, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, André Gide, Charles Bukowski, Erich Maria Remarque, and Nicolas Flamel.
1621 - 1695
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 92
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.13
Rank: 93
1856 - 1950
HPI: 77.10
Rank: 94
1804 - 1876
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 95
1875 - 1926
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 96
1487 - 1524
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 97
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 98
1860 - 1904
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 99
1918 - 2008
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 100
1869 - 1951
HPI: 76.64
Rank: 101
1920 - 1994
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 102
1898 - 1970
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 103
1330 - 1425
HPI: 76.45
Rank: 104
Among people born in 1922, José Saramago ranks 1. After him are Stan Lee, Yitzhak Rabin, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Thomas Kuhn, Christopher Lee, Judy Garland, Norodom Sihanouk, Ava Gardner, Pierre Cardin, Erich Hartmann, and Franjo Tuđman. Among people deceased in 2010, José Saramago ranks 1. After him are J. D. Salinger, Leslie Nielsen, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Curtis, Lech Kaczyński, Gloria Stuart, Éric Rohmer, Benoit Mandelbrot, Zecharia Sitchin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Claude Chabrol.
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 1
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 2
1922 - 1995
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 3
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 4
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 5
1922 - 2015
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 6
1922 - 1969
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 7
1922 - 2012
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 8
1922 - 1990
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 9
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 10
1922 - 1993
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 11
1922 - 1999
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 12
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 1
1919 - 2010
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 2
1926 - 2010
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 3
1942 - 2010
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 4
1925 - 2010
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 5
1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 6
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 7
1920 - 2010
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 8
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 9
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 10
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 11
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 12
Among people born in Portugal, José Saramago ranks 7 out of 555. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), Anthony of Padua (1195), António de Oliveira Salazar (1889), and Prince Henry the Navigator (1394). After him are Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), António Guterres (1949), Fernando Pessoa (1888), Manuel I of Portugal (1469), Pope Damasus I (305), and Luís de Camões (1524).
1480 - 1521
HPI: 91.69
Rank: 1
1460 - 1524
HPI: 90.25
Rank: 2
1450 - 1500
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 3
1195 - 1231
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 4
1889 - 1970
HPI: 77.00
Rank: 5
1394 - 1460
HPI: 76.75
Rank: 6
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 7
1467 - 1520
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 8
1949 - Present
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 9
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 10
1469 - 1521
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 11
305 - 384
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 12
1524 - 1580
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 13
Among writers born in Portugal, José Saramago ranks 1. After him are Fernando Pessoa (1888), Luís de Camões (1524), Denis of Portugal (1261), Judah Leon Abravanel (1460), José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845), Gil Vicente (1465), João de Barros (1496), Tomé Pires (1468), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), Almeida Garrett (1799), and Luís Fróis (1532).
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 1
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 2
1524 - 1580
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 3
1261 - 1325
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 4
1460 - 1530
HPI: 59.86
Rank: 5
1845 - 1900
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 6
1465 - 1536
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 7
1496 - 1570
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 8
1468 - 1540
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 9
1825 - 1890
HPI: 54.88
Rank: 10
1799 - 1854
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 11
1532 - 1597
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 12