Saramago

American

[sah-ruh-mah-goo] / ˌsɑ rəˈmɑ gʊ /

noun

José 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel Prize 1998.

Saramago British

/ ˌsaraˈmɑɡo /

noun

José. 1922–2010, Portuguese novelist and writer; his works include the novel O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis (1984): Nobel prize for literature 1998

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The centre's popular cafe bar - the Saramago - closed permanently in 2023 after a lengthy and bitter dispute over staffing issues led the venue to discontinue its relationship with the bar - a decision that resulted in a financial hit.

From BBC

But Isaac is a literature guy, toting around a paperback of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s “Blindness” to underscore that neither one of them sees their mismatch clearly.

From Los Angeles Times

It was previously given to writers such as Portugal's Jose Saramago and Mozambique's Paulina Chiziane.

From Reuters

Despite its Kafkaesque opening, “The Last White Man” plays closer to the register of José Saramago.

From Washington Post

In José Saramago’s “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis,” you will find Ricardo Reis, another of Pessoa’s fictional authors, back in Lisbon in late December 1935.

From New York Times

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