This volume of the Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies was prepared by Burghard Baltrush, Chair of the Cátedra Internacional José Saramago, at the University of Vigo, Spain, with the collaboration of Antía Monteagudo Alonso, doctoral candidate at the same Institution. We would like to thank them for having brought together this volume, an impressive collection of articles, offering refreshing and pathbreaking reflections on the Nobel Prize winner, José Saramago (1922-2010).  June 18, 2020 marks ten years of his death. This volume was put together in his remembrance.

Guest Editors

Editor

Élide Valarini Oliver
Professor of Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
elideoliver@spanport.ucsb.edu

Assistant Editor

Pedro Craveiro
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Santa Barbara
pedrocraveiro@ucsb.edu