Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies

(CNN) -- Jose Saramago, the outspoken Portuguese author who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, died Friday at his home on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, his foundation said.
Saramago, 87, suffered from a prolonged illness that caused multiple organ failure. He was surrounded by family, the statement on his foundation's website said.
In awarding literature's highest prize, the Nobel committee recognized Saramago as one "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
Portugal's first Nobel laureate in literature was perhaps best known around the world for his allegorical novel "Blindness," a tale of a nameless nation that loses its sight.
Reviewers debated Saramago's intention with the oddly punctuated book, but one insight came from the sole character in the book who is spared the "white blindness" affliction: ''Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.''

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Topic: Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies

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