An international conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize to José Saramago

Over half a century separates José Saramago’s first novel from Dulce Maria Cardoso’s Fields of Blood. This conference considers the dual challenges faced by the authors as citizens: on the one hand, to manifest in their writing the contemporary questions that impact on their lives, whilst on the other they are expected to regard the book as an aesthetic object to be judged as such by generations to come, and will address how the authors express a distinctive voice whose tone reverberates both nationally and internationally and in particular how their works take prominence in discussions of current affairs and politics whilst interweaving analysis of an oft tumultuous past. 

The conference will include a translation workshop led by Margaret Jull Costa, which you can choose to attend for an additional charge.