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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search ADVERTISEMENT Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap Nobel-winning novelist Saramago dead at 87 AFP - 14 minutes ago Send IM Story Print MADRID (AFP) - – Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago, who left his native Portugal in a dispute with his country's government, died Friday on the Spanish Canary island of Lanzarote aged 87, his foundation said. The author known for his atheist, communist views suffered multiple organ failure after a long illness and was "surrounded by his family" when he died in a "serene and peaceful way," the Jose Saramago Foundation said in a statement. Saramago, whose novels include "Blindness" about a country whose population loses its sight, had spent several recent periods in hospital with respiratory problems and was suffering from leukaemia, the Spanish daily El Mundo said. His visionary and often surreal novels only found fame when he was in his 60s and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998. Saramago left Portugal in the early 1990s after the conservative government in power refused to allow his controversial novel "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" to compete for a European literary prize. He lived on Lanzarote with his wife Pilar del Rio, a Spanish journalist. "Jose Saramago will remain a reference point in our vast literary oeuvre who should be read and known by generations to come," said Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva, a right-winger and practising Catholic. On Lanzarote, authorities set up a chapel of rest on Friday in the Jose Saramago library near his house and declared three days of mourning for the man the island claimed as an "adopted son". "He was a very simple and affable man, you would see him walking his dog and going out to buy bread," said local cultural official Jose Antonio Gutierrez. A Portuguese air force plane carrying Culture Minister Gabriela Canavilhas was to fly to Lanzarote to repatriate the remains of the writer on Saturday morning to the country he left behind. Portugal's government announced two days of mourning on Saturday and Sunday, when Saramago's body is to be cremated around midday. In a telegram to Saramago's widow, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero expressed his "deepest condolences" over the death of the writer "whose words crossed the world" and who "spoke up for the weakest." Born to a peasant family in the central village of Azinhaga, Saramago left school at the age of 12 and trained as a locksmith. Saramago published his first novel in 1947, but his next work, a collection of poems, did not appear until 19 years later. A member of the Communist Party, which was banned at the time, he took part in the revolution that ousted the Portuguese dictatorship in 1974 and published a second novel in 1977. His literary career only took off with the publication in 1982, when he was 60, of "Baltasar and Blimunda", a historical love story set in 17th-century Portugal. A self-described pessimist and non-believer, Saramago's novels, which have sold millions of copies in more than 30 languages, often deal with fantastic scenarios. "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" depicted Jesus losing his virginity to Mary Magdalen and being used by God for world domination. His 1995 novel "Blindness" depicts the breakdown of society after nearly everyone in an unnamed country goes blind. It was made into a Hollywood movie in 2008 starring Julianne Moore. "Essay on Lucidity", released in 2004, explored a right-wing government's violent reaction to an election in which more than 80 percent of votes cast are blank. "The Intermittency of Death", published in 2005, explores the chaos generated in an unnamed country where people suddenly stop dying. In "Cain", published last year, the author absolves the Biblical figure for the murder of his younger brother Abel and puts the blame instead on God. Saramago set off a storm of protests in Israel in 2002 after he compared a Palestinian city blockaded by the Israeli army which he visited to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. "What is happening in Palestine is a crime which we can put on the same plane as what happened at Auschwitz," the author told reporters at the time following a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In late 2009, a row broke out in Portugal after Saramago denounced the Bible as a "handbook of bad morals". Speaking at the launch of "Cain", Saramago said society would probably be better off without the Bible. Roman Catholic Church leaders accused him of a publicity stunt. As well as novels he wrote poetry, essays and plays. 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