''Memories of my Youth'' (''Small Memories'') is an autobiography 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 2006. A memoir of Saramago's childhood in Portugal that moves between

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, the village where he was born in 1922 and first moved away from when he was 18 months old. Aimee Shalan of ''The Guardian'' wrote that the book was "Masterfully written and wonderfully evocative...None of his memories are especially dramatic, but they resonate with wry humour and acute engagement with the everyday."Aimee Shalan, ''The Guardian'' 16 October 2010

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Works by José Saramago Literary autobiographies 2006 non-fiction books 21st-century Portuguese literature Portuguese-language novels {{lit-bio-book-stub