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Paula Contreras Márquez

Spanish novelist and author (1911-2008)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ16062142 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paula Contreras Márquez (Aldea de Los Zapateros, Córdoba, Andalusia, 8 January 1911 – Puerto Real, Cádiz, 3 February 2008) was a novelist and author of short stories and tales.

Marquez was honored by a route around the town of Moriles, which was depicted in many of her notable works.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Paula Contreras Márquez” is spanish novelist and author (1911-2008). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Paula, Contreras and Márquez, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-01-08. For this dossier, Paula, Contreras and Márquez is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “spanish novelist and author (1911-2008)” 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

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16062142. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1911 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paula Contreras Márquez” 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.