NMLP P-017023 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago (trans. Giovanni Pontiero) · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York · 1987

True first is the Portuguese Memorial do convento (Editorial Caminho, Lisbon, 1982). The 1987 HBJ is the first edition in English; the UK Jonathan Cape edition followed in 1988. First Saramago in English, a key point for a Saramago-in-English run.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-017023 for "Baltasar and Blimunda" by José Saramago (trans. Giovanni Pontiero) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-017023, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).