Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in the Canary Islands. He was 87. His publisher in the US is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which has all 13 of his books in print, and plans to release his next novel, The Elephant's Journey, on September 8.
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