José Saramago

José Saramago was a Portuguese writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 and died in 2010. He is best known for Blindness, about a city struck by a sudden epidemic of white blindness, and for The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, which the Portuguese government tried to remove from a prize shortlist in 1992. His other novels include Baltasar and Blimunda, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, and Death With Interruptions, many of them reimagining historical events with irony and a subversive eye.