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Spanish journalist, writer and translator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
María del Pilar del Río Sánchez (born March 15, 1950) is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator. She is the president of José Saramago Foundation.[2]
Pilar del Río | |
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Born | [1] | March 15, 1950
Nationality | Spanish Portuguese |
Spouse | José Saramago (1988–2010, his death) |
Website | www.josesaramago.org |
Pilar del Río was born in Castril (Granada) in 1950, to Antonio and Carmen, the eldest of fifteen children. She worked as a journalist at TVE and Sevilla's Canal Sur.[3]
In 1986, del Río met the Portuguese writer José Saramago after she read all his books translated to Spanish.[4] They got married two years later, in 1988, and decided to live in Lisbon, moving afterwards in 1993 to Lanzarote, one of the Spanish Canary Islands. She lived with José Saramago until his death, in 2010, also translating many of Saramago's works to Spanish. In 2010, after her husband's death, del Río acquired Portuguese citizenship.[5]
Pilar del Río is president of the José Saramago Foundation. On May 26, 2017 she was awarded the Luso-Spanish Arts and Culture Prize at the National Library of Spain.
Books by José Saramago which Del Río translated to Spanish:
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