# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-saramago
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:52:02.264Z

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name: "José Saramago"
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description: "The Portuguese novelist who turned Bible stories into blasphemy trials and history into subversive fable — his government pulled one of his books from prize contention for offending the Church, so he left the country. Harold Bloom called him the most gifted novelist alive."
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birthDate: "1922-11-16"
deathDate: "2010-06-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  José de Sousa Saramago was born 16 November 1922 in Portugal and spent decades writing allegories that dismantled official versions of history, narrating them in a voice critics described as both wise and ignorant. When his 1992 novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was deemed religiously offensive and removed from a European prize shortlist by Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva's government, Saramago took it as censorship and left for the Spanish island of Lanzarote with his wife Pilar del Río. He kept writing — parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony, per the Nobel committee that gave him the 1998 Prize in Literature. An atheist and libertarian communist, he spent his later years criticizing the Catholic Church and the European Union, founding a human rights foundation, and selling more than two million books in Portugal alone before his death on 18 June 2010.