Gonçalo M. Tavares
[Saramago Prize, 2005 – ‘Jerusalém’]

During his adolescence, in Aveiro, he divided himself between football and mathematics. He is interested in the intersection between the concrete and the abstract – that’s why he says he likes an idea that he can sit on. Taken to the stage, the work of Gonçalo M. Tavares can become a performance, an opera or a song. It is kaleidoscopic and fragmentary, in Alberto Manguel’s definition. The author of Uma História da Leitura said this to the author of Jeerusalém during the affectionate meeting between them in the extraordinary library of the National Palace of Mafra, to which Saramago gave his own mythology.

HEIRS OF SARAMAGO 
Eleven award-winning writers, eleven films

The José Saramago Literary Prize, created a year after Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, celebrates the talent of authors under forty years old.
They are the ‘Heirs of Saramago’, protagonists of this documentary series written by Carlos Vaz Marques and directed by Graça Castanheira.
Eleven very different voices, from different origins, with one link in common: the literary recreation of the Portuguese language.
Closely following each of these writers (in Portugal, Brazil and Angola), here is an intimate and affective portrait of some of the most prominent voices in Saramago’s language.