Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago, first Portuguese Nobel Literature laureate, dead at 87

LISBON, Portugal - Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize although his popularity at home was dampened by his unflinching support for Communism, blunt manner and sometimes difficult prose style, died Friday. (News Source: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 12:50:56)

Jose Saramago, first Portuguese Nobel Literature laureate, reported dead at 87

LISBON, Portugal - Jose Saramago, who became the first Portuguese-language winner of the Nobel Literature prize after seeing his popularity at home dampened by his unflinching support for Communism, blunt manner and sometimes difficult prose style, has died at 87, his publisher said Friday. (News Source: Kitchener - Waterloo Record - 12:49:44)

Nobel winner Jose Saramago dies: publisher

Jose Saramago’s publisher says that the Nobel-winning Portuguese novelist has died at age 87. (News Source: CBC.ca - 13:03:09)

Nobel-winning novelist Jose Saramago dead at 87

Jose Saramago’s publisher says that the Nobel-winning Portuguese novelist has died at 87. (News Source: CTV.ca - 13:10:51)

Nobel-winning Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago has died at 87: publisher

MADRID - Jose Saramago’s publisher says that the Nobel-winning Portuguese novelist has died at 87. Publisher Zeferino Coelho is being quoted on the website of the Portuguese paper Publico as saying that Saramago died at his home in Lanzarote, one of Spain’s Canary Islands. (News Source: Brandon Sun - 12:57:01)

Nobel-winning novelist Jose Saramago dies at age 87

Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87, the Associated Press reports. (News Source: USA Today - 12:46:00)

Novelist Saramago dies

MADRID - PORTUGUESE novelist Jose Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87 on the Canary island of Lanzarote where he lived, his Spanish publisher said on Friday. The outspoken author, whose novels include ‘Blindness’ and ‘The Cave’, had spent several periods in hospital recently, for what Spanish media said were respiratory problems. (News Source: Straits Times - 13:34:42)

Décès de l’écrivain et prix Nobel José Saramago à l’âge de 87 ans

L’écrivain portugais José Saramago est décédé à l’âge de 87 ans sur l’île espagnole de Lanzarote (Canaries), a annoncé une porte-parole son éditeur en Espagne Alfaguara. Il avait reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1998. (News Source: L’Hebdo - 13:25:29)

Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Saramago Dies at 87

José Saramago was the first Portuguese-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in 1998, and was known as much for his novels as for his unfaltering Communist views. (News Source: New York Times - 13:31:32)

José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Writer, Dies

The Portugese writer, 87, was known as much for his unfaltering Communist views as for his surrealist, sardonic novels. (News Source: International Herald Tribune - 13:39:15)

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