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1998 Nobel Prize in Literature information


1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
José Saramago
"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
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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]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ José Saramago britannica.com
  3. ^ Alan Riding (8 October 1998). "Nobel in Literature Goes to Jose Saramago". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 May 2021.

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