Portuguese writer awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. Site includes an author biography and list of selected works.

Guide to the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

News station details the Portuguese writer's critical acclaim and Nobel Prize. The article includes biographical notes about the author.

Presents the Swedish Academy press release announcing Saramago's prize for literature. Includes notes on his career.

Read the first chapter of Saramago's 1998 novel entitled "Blindness," which was translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

Article from October 1998 proclaims that the outspoken Portuguese writer has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.