{"id":34786,"date":"2024-03-01T10:52:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T09:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/?p=34786"},"modified":"2024-09-30T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:24:50","slug":"artefacts-from-jose-saramago-donated-to-the-nobel-prize-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/artefacts-from-jose-saramago-donated-to-the-nobel-prize-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Artefacts from Jos\u00e9 Saramago donated to the Nobel Prize Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"school_subject":[],"school_grade":[],"class_list":["post-34786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"acf":{"ingress":"A stone, a pair of glasses and a manuscript. These were some of the artefacts that were donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by the Jos\u00e9 Saramago Foundation in late February. On 8 March, the Nobel Prize Museum\u2019s new exhibition \u201cThese things changed the world\u201d will be inaugurated, with over 250 objects donated by laureates over the years. ","info":false,"post_block":[{"acf_fc_layout":"single_image_block","image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"
The Jos\u00e9 Saramago Foundation and Pilar del R\u00edo, Jos\u00e9 Saramago\u2019s widow, have selected and donated several objects to the Nobel Prize Museum. These included a pair of his glasses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough these glasses, Saramago looked at the world, its history, the people we are \u2013 men and women,\u201d Pilar del R\u00edo explained.<\/p>\n
A stone that had been important to Saramago was also donated to the museum. Pilar del R\u00edo said that her husband had tried to describe people as statues up until the 1995 novel \u201cBlindness\u201d, but after that he became more and more interested in stone, i.e. the material that statues are made of. The stone that was handed over to the museum was found by Saramago on a beach in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n
\u201cJos\u00e9 Saramago\u2019s artefacts give us the opportunity to tell his story in new ways and with new life,\u201d says Erika Lanner, Director of the Nobel Prize Museum. \u201cThey can also inspire future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery_four_image_block","gallery":[{"ID":34780,"id":34780,"title":"Nobelmusset_12 webb","filename":"Nobelmusset_12-webb-1.jpg","filesize":591068,"url":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nobelmusset_12-webb-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.nobelprizemuseum.se\/en\/?attachment_id=34780","alt":"","author":"9","description":"","caption":"Pilar del R\u00edo. 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Another part of the donation is a manuscript from Saramago\u2019s early years, with all notes and corrections intact. It was rejected but was published posthumously 40 years later.<\/p>\n
The donation of these personal artefacts fulfilled a promise made by Jos\u00e9 Saramago in 2004 and was made possible by Pilar del R\u00edo and the Jos\u00e9 Saramago Foundation, with the support of Cam\u00f5es Institute and Instituto Cervantes.<\/p>\n
The author Jos\u00e9 Saramago was born in 1922 in Azinhaga, Portugal and died in 2010 in Lanzarote, Spain. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. The prize motivation says that Saramago: \u201cwith parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality\u201d.<\/p>\n