Portuguese Nobel Prize JOSÉ SARAMAGO Celebrating 100 years

This exhibition consists of a set of panels RETRACING THE STEPS THAT WERE TAKEN- JOSÉ SARAMAGO 1922-2022 and short videos about the personal and literary career of José Saramago, the Portuguese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This multimedia exhibit is a narrative "journey" in reading and re-reading Saramago as suggested by a passage in his work Journey to Portugal:

"It is necessary to retrace the steps that were taken, to repeat them and to plot new paths alongside them."

A collaboration between the Embassy of Portugal, Dupont Underground, Saramago Foundation, and Camoes, IP.

By purchasing a ticket, you automatically enter a raffle for a round trip ticket from Washington Dulles to Portugal.

Agenda:

Friday Sept. 30th at 7 pm: Opening Night

Friday Oct. 7th at 7pm: Screening of documentary “Heirs of Saramago: José Luís Peixoto”

Sunday Oct. 9th at 1 pm: An afternoon with the youngest ever recipient of José Saramago’s Prize, the writer José Luís Peixoto

Sunday, Oct. 16th at 2pm: Screening of the movie “The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis”

Host or Publisher Dupont Underground