This past Wednesday, November 16, marked the centenary of the Portuguese writer José Saramago, Nobel Prize winner and adopted son of Lanzarote. The President of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, and the Councilor for Culture, Alberto Aguiar, traveled to Lisbon to attend his tribute and be participants in the "emotional closing ceremony", they point out from the Cabildo.
María Dolores Corujo expressed that "just as Saramago affirmed that Lanzarote was his land, Saramago also is part of us, that is why we want the island to accompany the memory of the author in the culmination of a vibrant year of deserved events organized in his honor".
"Saramago represented the search for values for a better coexistence in society and the fight for a better environmental awareness of the human being, ideas that we keep very present", affirmed the President of the Cabildo.
For his part, the head of the Culture area, Alberto Aguiar, valued "the literary and cultural legacy that the writer has left for humanity and, also, for Lanzarote, for this reason during this last year we have held talks, workshops, concerts, recitals, theater and opera celebrating the life and work of Saramago".
The closing ceremony ended with the conversation 'Saramaguian Legacies', a dialogue between Gonçalo M. Tavares and Carlos Reis, commissioner of the Centenary activities. In addition, one could enjoy a continuous reading of 'As Pequenas Memórias', an autobiographical work that traces the childhood of the Nobel Prize winner, in which, among others, María Dolores Corujo and the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, participated.
