Spanish writer Jose Luis Sampedro dies
Spanish writer, economist and academic Jose Luis Sampedro died in Madrid, his family told Efe on Tuesday.
The Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate Jose Saramago died today at age 87 on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, where he lived, said a statement from the Foundation Saramago.The author of ``The Stone Raft'', Jose de Sousa Saramago was a writer, journalist and playwright Portuguese.