José Luís Peixoto
[2001 Saramago Award – ‘Nenhum Olhar’]

Tattoos and piercings have become a hallmark of a writer who prefers, however, to be recognized for having won the José Saramago Prize. He was, in fact, the youngest author to receive it and with this recognition he put Galveias, the small Alentejo village where he was born, on the map of Portuguese literature. It is through this territory of affection, where there is even a street named after him, that José Luís Peixoto takes us. We visit his father’s sawmill, see him return to a philharmonic band rehearsal and understand how his mother was instrumental in making him a storyteller.

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.