Death at Intervals

About the Author and the Translator

José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922 and became a full-time writer in 1979. His oeuvre embraces plays, poetry, short stories, non-fiction and over a dozen novels, which have been translated into forty languages and have established him as one of Portugal’s most influential writers. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. José Saramago died on 18 June 2010.

Margaret Jull Costa has translated works by Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa, and José Régio, as well as a number of leading Spanish writers. Her translation of José Saramago’s All the Names won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize.