The body of Jose Saramago, Nobel prize-winning Portuguese novelist, arrived back in his homeland on Saturday from the Spanish island of Lanzarote for his funeral in Lisbon.
by Bill Benfield, Morning Star, Monday June 21
Mr Saramago won the 1998 Nobel literature prize. His work was internationally admired for its clarity of its ideas despite a complex prose style.
He died aged 87 on Friday after a long illness, an outspoken man who moved to the Canary Islands after a public spat in 1992 with the Portuguese government, which he accused of censorship.
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