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José Saramago

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998

Nobel Lecture

How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice

José Saramago delivered his Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 7 December 1998.

 

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