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Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo

writer (1921–2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ457798 ↗
Source-derived summary

Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo (1921 - 2010) was a Portuguese teacher and writer.

In 1980, she was a nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo” is writer (1921–2010). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Matilde, Rosa and Lopes, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1921, 2010, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-06-20. For this dossier, Matilde, Rosa and Lopes is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “writer (1921–2010)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q457798. VIAF identifies the subject as 50150139. The Library of Congress control number is n89636090. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2010 and 1980.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo primary sources, Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo archive and Matilde research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Matilde Rosa Lopes de Araújo” 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.