Hi josepinto
Saramago is not the unique Portuguese Nobel Prize, before him Egaz Moniz won the Nobel Prize in 1949 in Physiology or Medicine “for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Egas_Moniz
and
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/m...949/index.html
Best regards,