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    1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

    Award

    1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

    "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."

    Date
    • 8 October 1998 (1998-10-08) (announcement)
    • 10 December 1998
      (ceremony)
    LocationStockholm, Sweden
    Presented bySwedish Academy
    First awarded1901
    WebsiteOfficial website

    The 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Portuguese author José Saramago (1922–2010) "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."[1] He is the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature from Portugal.[2][3]

    Laureate

    Main article: José Saramago

    José Saramago frequently makes use of allegory in his writing, and fanciful elements are interspersed with a detailed and critical look at society.

    A characteristic