1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Portuguese author José Saramago (1922–2010) "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." He is the only recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature from Portugal.

1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
José Saramago
"who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
Date
  • 8 October 1998 (1998-10-08) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1998
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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