He graduated and went on to work as a lathe operator, a car mechanic, and then a civil servant for a few years each. However, it was very hard for a peasant family to afford the price and so, they moved him to a technical school when he was twelve. He had an apparent intelligence so his parents sent him to a grammar school. He was born in 1922 to a working-class family living in the Ribatejo Province of Portugal. But of course, he was not always a successful writer. That is right, José Saramago is no other than a Nobel winner. Do not take my word for his talent though, take his 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. In a sense, he expanded the horizons of what matters could be woven into a work of fiction. The subjects he touched on in his books were almost completely original and they turned out to be what the people needed to hear. The Portuguese writer José Saramago was perhaps one of the most influential writers of the late-twentieth century.
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