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        BBC NEWS 24  124 08 Oct 17:24/17
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 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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