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Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time
Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life
John Updike
No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist
Edmund White
Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time
Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life
John Updike
No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist
Edmund White
Saramago writes possibly the most beautiful but certainly the most precise and differentiated Portuguese prose of our time
Walter Haubrich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Saramago is a writer, like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any improbability to life
John Updike
No candidate for a Nobel Prize has a better claim to lasting recognition than this novelist
Edmund White