El Hombre Duplicado

José Saramago was born on November 16, 1922. He spent most of his childhood on his parent's farm, except while attending school in Lisbon. Before devoting himself exclusively to writing novels in 1976, he worked as a draftsman, a publisher's reader, an editor, translator, and political commentator for Diario de Lisboa. He is indisputably Portugal's best-known literary figure and his books have been translated into more than 25 languages. Although he wrote his first novel in 1947, he waited some 35 years before winning critical acclaim for work such as the Memorial do Convento. His works include The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The Stone Raft, Baltasar and Blimunda, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, and Blindness. At age 75, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 for his work in which "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony, continually enables us to apprehend an elusory reality." He died from a prolonged illness that caused multiple organ failure on June 18, 2010 at the age of 87. Jose Saramago (Azinhaga, 1922-Tias, Lanzarote, 2010) es uno de los escritores portugueses mas conocidos y apreciados en el mundo entero. En Espana, a partir de la primera publicacion de El ano de la muerte de Ricardo Reis, en 1985, su trabajo literario recibio la mejor acogida de los lectores y de la critica. Otros titulos importantes son Manual de pintura y caligrafia, Levantado del suelo, Memorial del convento, Casi un objeto, La balsa de piedra, Historia del cerco de Lisboa, El Evangelio segun Jesucristo, Ensayo sobre la ceguera, Todos los nombres, La caverna, El hombre duplicado, Ensayo sobre la lucidez, Las intermitencias de la muerte, El viaje del elefante, Cain, Claraboya y Alabardas. Alfaguara ha publicado tambien Poesia completa, Cuadernos de Lanzarote I y II, Viaje a Portugal, el relato breve El cuento de la isla desconocida, el cuento infantil La flor mas grande del mundo, el libro autobiografico Las pequenas memorias, El Cuaderno, Jose Saramago en sus palabras, un repertorio de declaraciones del autor recogidas en la prensa escrita, El ultimo cuaderno y Que hareis con este libro. Teatro completo. Recibio el Premio Camoens y el Premio Nobel de Literatura. www.josesaramago.org