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José Martínez Queirolo

Ecuadorian playwright (1931-2008)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ5942512 ↗
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José Martínez Queirolo (March 22, 1931 – October 8, 2008) was an Ecuadorian playwright and narrator. He was the 2001 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by President Gustavo Noboa.

Martínez Queirolo, known by friends as "Pipo", was born and died in the city of Guayaquil, of cancer on October 8, 2008.

Works

La casa del qué dirán.

Goteras

QEPD

El poema de Caín

Cuestión de vida o muerte.

La torre de marfil.

Los unos versus los otros (1968)

La conquista no ha terminado todavía (1983)

Puerto lejos del mar

Las faltas justificadas

El baratillo de la sinceridad

Réquiem por la lluvia (Brillante demostración del uso del monólogo)(1962)

Montesco y su señora

La balada de la Cárcel de Reading

Diloconamor

Y el pesebre nació

La Esquina.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “José Martínez Queirolo” as ecuadorian playwright (1931-2008). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 2008, 2001, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-03-22. The account is most persuasive where José, Martínez and Queirolo can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ecuadorian playwright (1931-2008). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5942512. VIAF identifies the subject as 183148996133159752915. The Library of Congress control number is no2007057262. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931, 2008, 2001 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “José Martínez Queirolo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.