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José Saramago en Tías

Tías, Lanzarote, Las Palmas

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José Saramago en Tías

Curiosity · Tías, Lanzarote, Las Palmas

Image of Tías, not of the place itself.

The Portuguese writer José Saramago, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, settled in Tías in 1993 and there wrote "Blindness" (1995); he lived in the municipality until his death on 18 June 2010. A steel sculpture with his initials commemorates him in the town.

Photo: Ole Husby (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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