José Saramago is a writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. His plays include The Night, What shall I do with this book? and The Second Life of Francis of Assisi. Other writing includes Possible Poems, Probably Joy, From this World and the Other, The Traveller’s Baggage, The Year of 1993, Risen from the Ground, Quasi Object, Baltazar and Blimunda, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The Stone Raft, The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, In Nomine Dei, Blindness and All the Names. He has also translated works by authors including Colette, Pär Lagerkvist, Jean Cassou, Maupassant, André Bonnard, Tolstoi, Baudelaire, Étienne Balibar, Nikos Poulantzas, Henri Focillon, Jacques Roumain, Hegel and Raymond Bayer.