Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for José Saramago across 5 places, from 1922 to 2011.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place José Saramago is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where José Saramago was documented, and when
1922year
Azinhagaattested“Saramago was born in 1922 into a family of very poor landless peasants in Azinhaga, Portugal, a small village in Ribatejo Province, some one hundred kilometres northeast of Lisbon.”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
1922year
Ribatejo Provinceattested“Saramago was born in 1922 into a family of very poor landless peasants in Azinhaga, Portugal, a small village in Ribatejo Province, some one hundred kilometres northeast of Lisbon.”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
3 December 1998exact date
First Portuguese Republicattested“* Grand Collar of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (3 December 1998) * Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (24 August 1985) * Grand Collar of the Order of Camões, Portugal (16 Nov…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
18 June 2010exact date
Lanzaroteattested“He died on 18 June 2010, aged 87, having spent the last few years of his life in Lanzarote, Spain.”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
18 June 2011exact date
Lisbonattested“Saramago's cremation took place in Lisbon, and his ashes were buried on the anniversary of his death, 18 June 2011, underneath a hundred-year-old olive tree on the square in front of the José Saramago Foundation (Casa dos Bicos).”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
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1924year
Lisbonmentioned“In 1924, Saramago’s family relocated to Lisbon, where his father began working as a police officer.”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
1998 to 2010period
Istanbulmentioned“In 1998 Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature with the prize notation: "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." Saramago was expect…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
March 2002month
Ramallahmentioned“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement." During the Second Intifada, while visiting Ramallah in March 2002, Saramago said that "what is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plane as…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
March 2002month
Auschwitzmentioned“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement." During the Second Intifada, while visiting Ramallah in March 2002, Saramago said that "what is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plane as…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
March 2002month
Palestinementioned“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement." During the Second Intifada, while visiting Ramallah in March 2002, Saramago said that "what is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plane as…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
2006year
Auschwitzmentioned“It was the fact that I put my finger in the Auschwitz wound that made them jump." During the 2006 Lebanon War, Saramago joined Tariq Ali, John Berger, Noam Chomsky, and others in condemning what they characterized as "a long-term militar…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
20 June 2010exact date
Lisbonmentioned“Saramago's funeral was held in Lisbon on 20 June 2010, in the presence of more than 20,000 people, many of whom had travelled hundreds of kilometres, but also notably in the absence of right-wing President of Portugal Aníbal Cavaco Silva…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
20 June 2010exact date
Azoresmentioned“Saramago's funeral was held in Lisbon on 20 June 2010, in the presence of more than 20,000 people, many of whom had travelled hundreds of kilometres, but also notably in the absence of right-wing President of Portugal Aníbal Cavaco Silva…”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
October 2011month
Portugalmentioned“The José Saramago Foundation announced in October 2011 the publication of a "lost novel" published as Skylight (Claraboia in Portuguese).”source: Wikipedia: José Saramago
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