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José Saramago, the Glossary

José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer.^[1]

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen).

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All the Names

All the Names (Todos os nomes) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago, the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.

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America Award in Literature

The America Award is a lifetime achievement literary award for international writers.

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Anarchist communism

Anarchist communism is a political ideology and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism.

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Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (born 15 July 1939) is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the 19th president of Portugal, from 9 March 2006 to 9 March 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 6 November 1985 to 25 October 1995.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Aristeion Prize

The Aristeion Prize was a European literary annual prize.

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Assembleia Municipal

An Assembleia Municipal ("municipal assembly"; plural: assembleias municipais) is the legislature that governs a municipality in Portugal.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Azinhaga

Azinhaga do Ribatejo or simply Azinhaga is a village and a civil parish in the municipality of Golegã, Santarém District, Lezíria do Tejo (roughly the same territory of the historical province of Ribatejo), Portugal.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento, 1982) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Benjamin Kunkel

Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972, in Colorado) is an American novelist and political economist.

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Bernard Kouchner

Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor.

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Blindness (novel)

Blindness (Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.

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Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer, poet, and painter who became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa under apartheid, and as a political prisoner of the National Party-led South African Government.

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Cain (novel)

Cain is the last novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.

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Camões Prize

The Camões Prize, named after Luís de Camões, is the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language. José Saramago and Camões Prize are Camões Prize winners.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso.

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Casa dos Bicos

The Casa dos Bicos ("House of the Beaks/Spikes") is a historical house in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the Portuguese municipality of Lisbon.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Coup of 25 November 1975

The Coup of 25 November 1975 (usually referred to as the 25 de Novembro in Portugal) was a failed military coup d'état against the post-Carnation Revolution governing bodies of Portugal.

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Culture of Portugal

The culture of Portugal is a very rich result of a complex flow of many different civilizations during the past millennia.

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Death with Interruptions

Death with Interruptions, published in Britain as Death at Intervals (As Intermitências da Morte), is a novel written by the Nobel Laureate, José Saramago.

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Diário de Notícias

Diário de Notícias is a Portuguese weekly newspaper published in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Dissent

Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival

The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) is a book festival that takes place during two weeks in August every year in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fernanda Eberstadt

Fernanda Eberstadt (born 1960 in New York City) is an American writer living in France.

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. José Saramago and Fidel Castro are 20th-century atheists and 21st-century atheists.

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First Portuguese Republic

The First Portuguese Republic (Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: República Portuguesa, Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May 1926 ''coup d'état''.

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Folha de S.Paulo

Folha de S.Paulo (sometimes spelled Folha de São Paulo), also known as simply Folha (Sheet), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell. José Saramago and George Orwell are 20th-century atheists.

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Giovanni Pontiero

Giovanni Pontiero (10 February 1932 – 10 February 1996) was a Scots-Italian scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Government of Portugal

The Government of Portugal, also referred to as the Government of the Portuguese Republic, the Portuguese Government or simply the Government, is one of the four of the Portuguese Republic, together with the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic and the courts.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University.

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Heteronym (literature)

The literary concept of the heteronym refers to one or more imaginary character(s) created by a writer to write in different styles.

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Human condition

The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

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Iberism

Iberism (Aragonese, Basque, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish: Iberismo; Iberismu; Catalan and Occitan: Iberisme), also known as pan-Iberism or Iberian federalism, is the pan-nationalist ideology supporting a unification of all the territories of the Iberian Peninsula.

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In Nomine Dei

In Nomine Dei is a 1993 Portuguese-language play by José Saramago which tells the story of the Anabaptist Münster Rebellion of 1534.

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Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (1990–2015) was a British literary award.

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.

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Isabel da Nóbrega

Maria Isabel Guerra Bastos Gonçalves, who used the pseudonym Isabel da Nóbrega (26 June 1925 – 2 September 2021), was a Portuguese writer, playwright, columnist, translator and radio broadcaster.

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James Wood (critic)

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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John Berger

John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.

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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

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José Saramago Foundation

The José Saramago Foundation is a cultural private institution located in the Casa dos Bicos, in Lisbon (Portugal).

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José Saramago Prize

The José Saramago Literary Prize has been awarded since 1999 by the Círculo de Leitores Foundation to a literary work written in Portuguese by a young author in which the first edition was published in a Lusophone country.

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Journey to Portugal

Journey to Portugal (Viagem a Portugal in Portuguese) is a non-fiction book on Portugal by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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Land of Sin

Land of Sin or Country of Sin (Portuguese: Terra do Pecado), published in 1947, is the first novel by author José Saramago, who in 1998 became the first author writing in Portuguese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Lanzarote

Lanzarote is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula.

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Lathe

A lathe is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, threading and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

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Leukemia

Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia; pronounced) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Love

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), also known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula, is a Brazilian politician who is the 39th and current president of Brazil since 2023.

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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy (Portuguese: Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Elisabeth Jull Costa OBE, OIH (born 2 May 1949) is a British translator of Portuguese- and Spanish-language fiction and poetry, including the works of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, Paulo Coelho, Bernardo Atxaga, Carmen Martín Gaite, Javier Marías, and José Régio.

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Memories of My Youth

Memories of my Youth (Small Memories) is an autobiography by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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Military Order of Saint James of the Sword

The Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada) is a Portuguese order of chivalry.

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N+1

n+1 is a New York–based American literary magazine that publishes social criticism, political commentary, essays, art, poetry, book reviews, and short fiction.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Ongoing Revolutionary Process

The Ongoing Revolutionary Process (PREC) was the period during the Portuguese transition to democracy starting after a failed right-wing coup d'état on 11 March 1975, and ended after a failed left-wing coup d'état on 25 November 1975.

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Opinions That DL Had

Opinions That DL Had (Portuguese: As opiniões que o DL teve) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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Order of Camões

The Order of Camões (Ordem de Camões) is a Portuguese order of knighthood originally created in 1985 but only fully integrated into the Portuguese honours system on 30 June 2021.

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Público (Portugal)

Público (English: Public) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper of record published in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Pessimism

Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation.

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Pilar del Río

María del Pilar del Río Sánchez (born March 15, 1950) is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Portuguese Communist Party

The Portuguese Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português,, PCP) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal based upon democratic centralism.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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President of Portugal

The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic (Presidente da República Portuguesa), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal.

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Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro.

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Ramallah

Ramallah (help|God's Height) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, that serves as the de facto administrative capital of the State of Palestine.

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Raphanus raphanistrum

Raphanus raphanistrum, also known as wild radish, white charlock or jointed charlock, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae.

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Ribatejo Province

The Ribatejo is the most central of the traditional provinces of Portugal, with no coastline or border with Spain.

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Santarém District

The District of Santarém (Distrito de Santarém) is a district of Portugal, located in Portugal's ''Centro Region''.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature

The São Paulo Prize for Literature (Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura) is a Brazilian literary prize for novels written in the Portuguese language and published in Brazil.

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Second Intifada

The Second Intifada (lit; האינתיפאדה השנייה), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, characterized by a period of heightened violence in the Palestinian territories and Israel between 2000 and 2005.

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Seeing (novel)

Seeing (Ensaio sobre a Lucidez, lit. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago.

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Skylight (novel)

Skylight is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago.

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Sousa (surname)

Sousa, Souza, de Sousa (literally 'from Sousa'), de Souza, Dsouza or D'Souza is a common Portuguese-language surname, especially in Portugal, Brazil, East Timor, India (among Catholics in Goa, Mumbai, Mangaluru and Fort Kochi), and Galicia.

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Subversion

Subversion refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to sabotage the established social order and its structures of power, authority, tradition, hierarchy, and social norms.

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Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

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Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali (طارق علی;; born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. José Saramago and Tariq Ali are 20th-century atheists and 21st-century atheists.

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Tías, Las Palmas

Tías is a town and a municipality in the southern part of the island of Lanzarote, province of Las Palmas, autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain.

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The Cave (novel)

The Cave (A caverna) is a novel by Portuguese author José Saramago who received the Nobel Prize in 1998.

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The China Post

The China Post was an English-language newspaper published in Taiwan (officially the Republic of China), alongside the Taipei Times and the Taiwan News.

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The Double (Saramago novel)

The Double is a 2002 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.

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The Elephant's Journey

The Elephant's Journey (A Viagem do Elefante) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (original title: O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo, 1991) is a novel by the Portuguese author José Saramago.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The History of the Siege of Lisbon

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

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Lives of Things

The Lives of Things is a short story collection by Portuguese novelist and Nobel-prize winner Jose Saramago.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

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The Notes

The Notes is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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The Stone Raft

The Stone Raft (A Jangada de Pedra) is a novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago.

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The Tale of the Unknown Island

"The Tale of the Unknown Island" (O conto da ilha desconhecida) is a short story by Portuguese author José Saramago.

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The Traveller's Baggage

The Traveller's Baggage (Portuguese: A Bagagem do Viajante) is a volume of newspaper articles by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

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

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Theopoetics

Theopoetics in its modern context is an interdisciplinary field of study that combines elements of poetic analysis, process theology, narrative theology, and postmodern philosophy.

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This World and the Other

This World and the Other (original Portuguese title: Deste Mundo e do Outro) is a volume of newspaper articles by the Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago.

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Unitary Democratic Coalition

The Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU – Coligação Democrática Unitária, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV).

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.

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Vasco Gonçalves

General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves OA (Lisbon 3 May 1921 – 11 June 2005) was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975.

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Vincenzo Consolo

Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer.

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Western canon

The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde "Wole" Soyinka (Akínwándé Olúwọlé Babátúndé "Wọlé" Ṣóyíinká,; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. José Saramago and Wole Soyinka are Nobel laureates in Literature.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.

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1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

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." He is the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature from Portugal.

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2006 Lebanon War

The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War (حرب تموز, Ḥarb Tammūz) and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War (מלחמת לבנון השנייה, Milhemet Levanon HaShniya), was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Golan Heights.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Saramago

Also known as Jose Samago, José de Sousa Saramago, Saramago.

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José Saramago, the Glossary

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20th-century Portuguese dramatists and playwrights

20th-century Portuguese male writers

20th-century Portuguese novelists

21st-century Portuguese male writers

21st-century Portuguese novelists

Atheism activists

Camões Prize winners

People from Golegã

Portuguese Nobel laureates

Portuguese atheists

Portuguese communists

Portuguese male dramatists and playwrights

Portuguese male novelists

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