José Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the theopoetic human factor.

- Manual of Painting and Calligraphy 1977 novel en

- The Lives of Things 1978 short-stories satire, dictatorship en

- Raised from the Ground 1980 novel portugal, family, poverty, class en

- Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's Hi 1981 non-fiction travel, portugal, history en

- Baltasar and Blimunda 1982 novel historical, portugal, love en

- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis 1984 novel en

- The Stone Raft (Harvest Book) 1986 novel en

- The History of the Siege of Lisbon 1989 novel en

- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ 1991 novel en

- Blindness 1995 novel dystopia, blindness, science-fiction, violence en

- All the Names 1997 novel bureaucracy, identity, obsession en

- The Tale of the Unknown Island 1997 novel en

- The Cave 2000 novel modernity, family, consumerism en

- The Double 2002 novel identity, obsession, paranoia en

- Seeing 2004 novel satire en

- Death with Interruptions 2005 novel death, immortality, absurdity en

- Small Memories 2006 biography autobiography, childhood en

- The Elephant’s Journey 2008 novel historical, portugal, en

- The Notebook 2008 non-fiction essays en

- Cain 2009 novel religion en

- The Collected Novels of José Saramago 2010 anthology en

- Skylight 2011 novel en