In 20th-century Portuguese literature, which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. José Saramago
- Step 1: The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize to a Portuguese-language writer for the first time in 1998. Step 2. José Saramago received the award 'who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to elude an illusory reality'. Answer: José Saramago. Why not the others: Pessoa died in 1935 before international fame; Lobo Antunes and Vergílio Ferreira never won the Nobel.
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