José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José Maria de Eça de Queirós

Portuguese writer

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1845

Place of Birth: Póvoa de Varzim, Porto District, Portugal

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1900

Profession: writer, diplomat, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

José Maria de Eça de Queirós (European Portuguese: [?u'z? m?'?i? d? '?s? d? kej'???]; 25 November 1845 – 16 August 1900) is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.
Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert.
The London Observer critics ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
During his lifetime, the spelling was "Eça de Queiroz" and this is the form that appears on many editions of his works; the modern standard Portuguese spelling is "Eça de Queirós".