{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"José Saramago","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/jose-saramago","author_name":"José Saramago","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/jose-saramago","description":"José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his \u0026quot;parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality.\u0026quot; His works, some of which have been seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic. In 2003 Harold Bloom described Saramago as \u0026quot;the most gifted novelist alive in the world today.\u0026quot;","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/author/216654/6143294345113217.jpg","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":199}