José Saramago
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Emerging from a poor peasant family in the village of Azinhaga, he attended a technical school, qualified as a lathe operator and spent his early years working as a mechanic before turning to reading in Lisbon’s public libraries. After a stint as a civil servant, editor, and journalist, he published his first novel in 1947 and returned to literature with poetry in the mid-1960s, soon followed by a…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources