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Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and has been a full-time writer since 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and ten novels, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have established him as the most influential Portuguese writer of his generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Quite unlike anything else London Review of Books A Borgesian fable with a marvellous flavour all its own -- Phillip Hensher, Books Of The Year Spectator A comic and profound exploration of the self... A uniquely seductive writer Daily Telegraph The Double is Saramago at his most practised and polished. It is philosophy and thriller rolled into one Independent Indebted to Borges and with a nod to Auster, he manages to surpass both with the audacity and sheer erudition of his prose -- Catherine Taylor The Guardian 20051015
