Who Is All The Names By Senhor Jose?

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Senhor Jose won the Nobel prize in Literature in 1998. This writer got this award because he wrote some considerable novels, which additionally incorporate his well known novel called All the Names. Senhor Jose is a Portuguese Writer. He died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Senhor Jose was 87 years old when he died. Jose died with multiple organ failure after a long period of illness
The tall, modest, and inquisitive, Senhor Jose published his novel (All the Names) in 1997. This book shows Jose’s dark life and how contemplative he was. Senhor Jose liked to collect personal information about other people. He was the First portugueses-language writer to win the Nobel Prize. At the age of 27 Senhor Jose started working in the Central Registry as a lower class clerk . At that time he had to collect people’s Birth, Marriage, and the death certificate. Other colleague who worked with Senhor Jose Said: “Jose surely did not like
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He liked collecting papers because he got a lot of writing sense by collecting other people's information .Senhor Jose also said in one of his book review: “If I had died when I was 60, I would have not writing anything.” This effectively brightens over his first major success in fiction novel called Manual de Pintura. His books and novels widely read in Portugal and Brazil.
Senhor Jose was born in a respectful family. His Family moved to Lisbon when he was two years old. Since Jose was modest, peaceful and wise because of that classmate stated distressing him. He left school early age to contribute to the household bills by working as a mechanic. While he was working for this job he slowly started building his interest in other things like working at a central registry and finding famous people's information and writing books and novels. Jose also worked on several newspapers, as well as stint a literary reviewer for Serra

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