Editing José Saramago (section)

==Awards and accolades==
* 1995: [[Camões Prize]]
* 1998: [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]
* 2004: [[America Award in Literature|America Award]]
* 2009: [[São Paulo Prize for Literature]] — Shortlisted in the Best Book of the Year category for ''A Viagem do Elefante''<ref name=folha2009>{{cite web |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u574439.shtml |title=Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura divulga finalistas |work=[[Folha de S.Paulo]] |author=Folha Online |date=31 May 2009 |access-date=6 April 2013}}</ref>

===Nobel Prize in Literature===
{{main|1998 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
[[File:Ivo Andrić and José Saramago 2022 stamp of Serbia.jpg|thumb|José Saramago (right) and the [[1961 Nobel Prize in Literature]] laureate [[Ivo Andrić]] pictured on a 2022 Serbian stamp.]]
The [[Swedish Academy]] selected Saramago as the 1998 recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]. The announcement came when he was about to fly out of Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair, and caught both him and his editor by surprise.<ref name=unexpected_fantasist/> The Nobel committee praised his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony", and his "modern skepticism" about official truths.<ref name=new_ways_of_seeing/> The choice of Saramago was generally well received internationally, but was heavily criticized by the bourgeois press in his home country and also by the [[Vatican City]] who questioned the decision on political grounds and called it "yet another ideologically slanted award."<ref> Helmer Lång ''Hundra nobelpris i litteratur 1901-2001'', Symposion 2001, p.376-377</ref><ref name=nyt_defends_work>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/12/world/nobel-writer-a-communist-defends-work.html |title=Nobel Writer, A Communist, Defends Work |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=12 October 1998 |access-date=18 June 2010}}</ref>

At the award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 1998, [[Kjell Espmark]] of the [[Swedish Academy]] described Saramago's writing as: {{quote|literature characterised at one and the same time by sagacious reflection and by insight into the limitations of sagacity, by the fantastic and by precise realism, by cautious empathy and by critical acuity, by warmth and by irony. This is Saramago’s unique amalgam.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1998/ceremony-speech/ |title=Award ceremony speech |publisher=nobelprize.org }}</ref> }}

In 2024, Saramago's widow Pilar del Rio and the [[José Saramago Foundation]] donated a number of Saramago's belongings to the [[Nobel Prize Museum]] in Stockholm, including a pair of his glasses, a stone found in [[Lanzarote]] he kept at his home, and a manuscript written in his youth.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nobelprizemuseum.se/foremal-fran-jose-saramago-har-skankts-till-nobelprismuseet/ |title=Föremål från José Saramago har skänkts till Nobelprismuseet |date=1 March 2024 |publisher=Nobel Prize Museum |lang=Swedish }}</ref>

===Decorations===
*[[File:PRT Order of Saint James of the Sword - Grand Collar BAR.png|80px]] Grand Collar of the [[Military Order of Saint James of the Sword]], Portugal (3 December 1998)<ref name="OrdHonPor">{{cite web |title=Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas |url=http://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=153 |website=Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas |access-date=31 July 2017}}</ref>
*[[File:PRT Order of Saint James of the Sword - Commander BAR.svg|80px]] Commander of the [[Military Order of Saint James of the Sword]], Portugal (24 August 1985)<ref name="OrdHonPor"/>
*[[File:PRT Order of Camões - Grand Collar BAR.svg|80px]] Grand Collar of the [[Order of Camões]], Portugal (16 November 2021)<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=16 November 2021 |title=Marcelo condecora Saramago com o grande-colar da Ordem de Camões |trans-title=Marcelo awards Saramago with the Grand Collar of the Order of Cam~es |url=https://www.publico.pt/2021/11/16/culturaipsilon/noticia/marcelo-condecora-saramago-grandecolar-ordem-camoes-1985245 |language=pt |work=[[Público (Portugal)|Público]] |location= |access-date=22 November 2021}}</ref>