![]() ![]() ![]() Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. This was not, however, the only identity problem to which I was fated at birth. Not until the age of seven, when I had to present an identification document at primary school, was it realised that my full name was José de Sousa Saramago… I should add that saramago is a wild herbaceous plant, whose leaves in those times served at need as nourishment for the poor. José de Sousa would have been my own name had not the Registrar, on his own inititiave added the nickname by which my father’s family was known in the village: Saramago. My parents were José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. Written over the author’s signature and translated into English by Fernando Rodrigues and Tim Crosfield Share via Email: José Saramago – Biographical Share this content via Email.Share on LinkedIn: José Saramago – Biographical Share this content on LinkedIn. ![]() ![]() Tweet: José Saramago – Biographical Share this content on Twitter.Share on Facebook: José Saramago – Biographical Share this content on Facebook. ![]()
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