José Maria Ferreira de Castro

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Changed his place of birth from Salgueiros to Oliveira de Azeméis.	René Ostberg	Dec 18, 2024
	Added information about his Nobel Prize nominations, childhood, and first novel and about the museums dedicated to him.	René Ostberg	Dec 18, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Jun 25, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		May 20, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 01, 2024
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998