Jose Saramago dies at 87; Portuguese novelist won the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature

The writer was 60 before he penned most of the works for which he was honored. He explored historical themes from unconventional angles, and society through imaginative, inexplicable events.

Source: LA Times
June 19, 2010

Jose Saramago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature for early novels that explored historical themes from unconventional angles and later works in which inexplicable events threaten society's underpinnings, has died. He was 87.

The writer died Friday at his home in Lanzarote, one of Spain's Canary Islands, of multiple organ failure after a long illness, according to the Jose Saramago Foundation

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