Project about Enric Valor made by 1r Batxiller students at IES Federica Montseny, as part of our Comenius Project 2010-2011

1. ENRIC VALOR BIOGRAPHY
By: Berta, Noelia, Celia
and Julia

2. INTRODUCTION
Enric Valor narrator
and grammarian who
made one of the most
important
contributions to the re-
collection and recovery
of Valencian
lexicography and its
standardization in the
Valencian Community.
was a Valencian

3. BIOGRAPHY
Enric Valor was born in Castalla (1911), in the Valencian
comarca of l'Alcoià. He studied at the school of
commercial in Alicante.
When he was 19 years old he became a journalist in
Alicante writing in the satirical newspaper El Tio Cuc, in
Valencian. During the Second Spanish Republic he was
active as a politician. He was also at this time working in
the city of Valencia in the nationalist newspapers La
República de les Lletres, El Camí and El País Valencià.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out he supported the
Spanish Republic.

4. At the beginning of the 1950s he
started to collecte "rondalles”,
which are like little stories. In
total he collected 36 rondalles
with a great narrative value. He
collaborated at the creation of
the Diccionary Català-Valencià-
Balear. Besides he defended the
laws of valencian ortography.
In 1950 he finished his first novel,
L'ambició d'Aleix. And other
important novels are: Cicle de
Cassana, La idea de l'emigrant,
Sense la terra promesa.

5. During the 1960s he returned to underground
political activities involving Valencian
nationalism but he became a political
prisoner of Franco's dictatorship from 1966
to 1968. Once out of prison he founded
almost the first magazine in Valencian in the
postwar period. When Franco ended being
the dictatorship, Enric Valor could spread
freely his opinion.
During the 1990s there was a move among
some Valencian cultural groups to propose
Valor as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in
Literature, but at the end they didn´t do it.

6. He was appointed member of philology
institute in 1978.
In 1983 he released La flexió verbal where he
summarized the widely dialectised Valencian
verbs. This work became the principal
reference for the normative use of verbs, and
is used as essential teaching material for
Valencian pupils.
He died the 13th
of January in 2000 at Valencia,
at the age of 89 and some months before he
died he was giving a conference when he said
that every Valencian should use the Valencian
language to enrich our culture.

7. AWARDS
He won a lot of important awards which are:
-1983, Sanchis Guarner's Award (Premi Sanchis Guarner),
from the Valencia Province Council.
-1985, Valencian Arts Award (Premi de les Lletres
Valencianes) from Valencia City Council.
-1986, Member of the Philological Department in the
Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
-1987, Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (Catalan
Arts Honored Award) from the Òmnium Cultural de
Barcelona. In the same year, Member of the Advisory
Board in the Interuniversitary Institute of Valencian
Philology (Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia
Valenciana).

8. -1993, Honoris Causa Doctor by the Universitat de
València and also Saint George's Cross (Creu de Sant
Jordi) from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
-1996, Miquelet d'Honor from the Societat Coral El
Micalet, de Valencia.
1997, Premi Cavanilles from the Valencian Institute of
Nature and Hiking (Institut Valencià d'Excursionisme i
Natura).
-1998, Honoris Causa Doctor by the Universitat de les Illes
Balears.
-1999, Honoris Causa Doctor by the Universitat Jaume I
from Castelló, the Honoris Causa Doctor by the
Universitat d'Alacant and Honoris Causa Doctor by the
Universitat Politècnica de València.

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
-We have goten ideas from the Valencian power pint we
did also about Enric Valor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enric_Valor_i_Vives
http://www.ua.es/va/presentacion/doctores/valor/biograf
ia.htm
http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/valore/pagina.php?
id_sec=2940

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
-We have goten ideas from the Valencian power pint we
did also about Enric Valor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enric_Valor_i_Vives
http://www.ua.es/va/presentacion/doctores/valor/biograf
ia.htm
http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/valore/pagina.php?
id_sec=2940