Novelist, poet, translator, journalist, José Saramago achieved his first literary success in 1982 with the release of The Memorial of the Convent. Thereafter, and for three decades, his unique literary voice has been heard constantly, thus receiving the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. At the same time, his status as a militant communist led him to an active intervention in Portuguese and international public life. Author of a broad work, his novels The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Stone Raft and Blindness (adapted to the cinema by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles), among many others, made him the most read among the Portuguese writers. His penultimate novel, The Elephant’s Journey, has been launched in the CCB Main Auditorium in 2008, with the presence of the author.

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Projection of the movie Blindness, 2008, by Fernando Meirelles.