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BBC NEWS 24 124 08 Oct 17:24/17 ************ ************** ****** * *** *** ** ************** ****** ************ **************************
PORTUGUESE NOVELIST WINS NOBEL PRIZE Hard-edged but soft-spoken iconoclast Jose Saramago has become the first Portuguese-speaking winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The reclusive 75-year-old, who was born into a poor family near Lisbon, has been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He won for "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony", the Swedish academy announced.
Mr Saramago has been one of Portugal's best-selling authors since the 1980s.
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