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Jose Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and became a full-time writer in 1979. His oeuvre included plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and 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. Jose Saramago died on 18 June 2010.
The great thing about this memoir of boyhood is how unportentous it is for the most part -- Michael Kerrigan Scotsman The lasting impression left by the self-portrait is of an abiding loneliness, nostalgia, and loss, leavened by humour and an unfeigned humility Times Literary Supplement A moving account of his childhood and adolescence...Small Memories will delight -- Raymond Carr The Spectator The humiliations and joys of childhood, magnified by time, are delicately revisited -- Angel Gurria-Quintana Financial Times A real insight into the making of a great writer Independent
