The award of the Nobel prize in 1998 caused foreigners to ask Who the devil is this, and many Portuguese to reply that he was a haughty old Marxist, a signed-up communist for 30 years, always inveighing against the IMF and the EU and lamenting that the Portuguese revolution of April 1974 had never gone far enough, just dwindled into social democracy.

ECONOMIST: Jos�� Saramago

The Macau Arts Festival is held in March, while the Anniversary of 1974 Portuguese Revolution on 25 April celebrates Portugal's left-wing military coup.

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