RIP.

Goodbye Jose Saramego.

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Many Arab intellectuals know about, and have read for, Jose Saramago.

Besides being a writer, Saramago has his own political stance as well.

All the Names () is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.

chonnye My favorite novelist, Jose Saramago passed away.

In 2001, his novel Nenhum Olhar (Blank Gaze The Implacable Order of Things) received the José Saramago Literary Award.

1980) 2010 José Saramago, Portuguese journalist, author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b.

The History of the Siege of Lisbon () is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, first published in 1989.

Death with Interruptions, published in Britain as Death at Intervals, () is a novel written by José Saramago.

Leonardo Sakamoto criticizes Vatican's position on the death of portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

Particularly popular and distinguished is José Saramago, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Ricardo Reis is the main character of José Saramago's 1986 novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis .

Blindness (, meaning Essay on Blindness ) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.

And he went one by one, embracing the trees and crying, saying good bye to them because he knew he would not return.

And here comes the day where it's Saramago's turn to hug his own trees and kiss them goodbye.

Note from the author The absence of punctuation in this post is intentional.

On the other hand, Ahmed Shawky was worried that Saramago's political stances, might make people overlook his side as a creative writer.

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (in Portuguese O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis ) is a 1984 novel by Portuguese novelist José Saramago, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature.

He says that there are people celebrating the death of Saramago , referring to an article which was published in Italy's main Roman Catholic newspaper L Osservatore Romano .

Egyptian blogger, Badawiaa, wrote in her blog about Saramago bidding farewell to life اليوم جاء الدور على ساراماغو ليقب ل أشجار حديقته هو الآخر ويقول لها وداعا.

In his speech on the occasion of winning the Nobel prize, Saramago spoke about his childhood and remembered his grandfather's death He went to the garden of his house.

Unfortunately I haven't read anything for Saramago, and I always see his novel Blindness on my bookshelf and wish to have the chance to read it soon.

And finally, Laila, advised Ahmed not to miss the chance of reading Saramago's novel أنصحك يا أحمد ، بألا تفوت قراءة ( العمى ) ، رواية تشعرك بالواقعية ، تشعرك بأهمية العينين ، مازلت إلى اليوم أخشى احساس فقد البصر فجأة في مكان ما My advice to you Ahmed, is not to miss the chance of reading Blindness .

Saramago became very well known for his novel, Blindness , which was published in 1995, and was later on translated into Arabic by Muhammad Habib , and was then published by Dar El Mada .

A Financial Times literary critic credits Kafka with influencing José Saramago, and Al Silverman, a writer and editor, states that J. D. Salinger loved to read Kafka's works.

On Facebook, Hélio Moreira quoted a famous reflection of Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize in Literature winner José Saramago, who in an outburst wrote a record about privatisation in his Lanzarote Notebooks Daily III (pages 147 and 148)

Bloggers across the Middle East mourned the death of Portuguese writer Jose Saramago the only Portuguese language Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, who has his own religious and political controversial views.

Some argue that respected authors from Portugal such as Luís Vaz de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queiroz and José Saramago are being axed from the curriculum or that students will lack important context for Brazil's literary tradition.

Bárbara Axt publishes a spot on video showing Jose Saramago's reaction just after watching Blindness, an adaptation of his book by Brazilian Fernando Meirelles, which was launched the Cannes film festival on Wednesday. I am so happy to watch this film... as I was when I finished writing the book , said the Nobel laureate Portuguese writer.

Lebanese blogger Jihad Bazzi wonders what Saramago might be doing now in his afterlife حيث ولد الآن، يتلفت مراقبا . سيكتب عما يرى، لا فرق ما إذا كان في الجنة أو في جهنم، او حيث أظنه مكانه المفضل بعد الموت العدم الرائع The writer has passed away...

Another commenter replied saying that he will sure miss Saramago's writings, although he doesn't agree with his religious views لا شك أننا سنفقد فيه روايته العظيمة وأسلوبه الأخاذ ... أما أنا فلن استطيع الترحم على من قال إن الله والمسيح أقاما علاقة جنسية For sure I'll miss his great novels and attractive writing style.