José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese-French journalist and author (died 1900)

Eça de Queiroz

Portuguese realist writer (1845–1900)

José Maria de Eça de Queiroz or Queirós is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. In the London Observer, Jonathan Keates ranked him alongside Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.