The Spanish widow of Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has requested Portuguese citizenship and plans to move to Lisbon later this year to head her late husband’s foundation, Pilar del Rio said Monday.

IBNA: According to file, “I want to belong to my husband’s country”, del Rio, a journalist, told Lusa News Agency, adding that she had requested naturalization about two weeks ago.
She said she planned to move to Lisbon in September, a decision she said she had discussed with Saramago many times. 

Del Rio said she hoped the Saramago Foundation, headquartered in Lisbon’s historic Casa dos Bicos, could be opened to the public next year. No decision, she added, had yet been taken on the future of their home in the Canary Islands. 

Saramago died at age 87 last June 18 at their home in Lanzarote.

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