Novels of especially noted Portuguese writer José Saramago, include
Country of Sin
(1947) and
The Stone Raft
(1986); people awarded him the Nobel Prize of 1998 for literature.
The most important among nations of the last century, he in his sixties then came to prominence with the publication of
Baltasar and Blimunda
. A huge body of work followed, translated into more than forty languages.
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