Sunday, June 20, 2010

Jose Saramago Is Dead

The greatest Portuguese writer of the second half of the twentieth century, a Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago is dead. Until the last days of his life he kept writing. A little while ago he created a splash by starting a blog that immediately became extremely famous and has now been turned into a book. If you read Portuguese, the blog can be found here.

I can't believe that this great writer will never write anything else.

Some of my favorite books by Saramago are:

  


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

not as good as steig larsson

Clarissa said...

I wish some people were a bit more likely to control the unwelcome outbursts of their ignorance.

GMP said...

I wish some people were a bit more likely to control the unwelcome outbursts of their ignorance.

Clarissa, this was very classy.