''Manual of Painting and Calligraphy'' (Portuguese: ''Manual de Pintura e Caligrafia'') is a novel by

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-winning author

José Saramago José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE ComSE GColCa (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010), was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony ith which heco ...

. It was first published in 1977. An English translation by

Giovanni Pontiero Giovanni Pontiero (10 February 1932 – 10 February 1996) was a Scots-Italian scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction. Most notably, he translated the works of José Saramago and Clarice Lispector, two celebrated names in Portuguese-language ...

was published in 1993. The plot of the novel involves H., who paints the industrialist S. and has an affair with his secretary.

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Novels by José Saramago 1977 novels 20th-century Portuguese novels Portuguese-language novels {{1970s-novel-stub