Enric Valor i Vives

[1] Enric Valor was born in 1911, the son of an affluent family from Castalla, in the Valencian comarca of l'Alcoià.

In 1930, at the age of nineteen, he became a journalist in Alicante writing in the satirical newspaper El Tio Cuc, in Valencian.

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 it didn't come to fruit.

Like Carles Salvador and Sanchis Guarner, he was one of the principal promoters of the standardisation of Valencian by means of works such as Curs de la llengua valenciana (Gorg, 1961), Millorem el llenguatge (1971), and Curso medio de gramática catalana referida especialmente al País Valenciano (1973).

This work became the principal reference for the normative use of verbs, and is used as essential teaching material for Valencian pupils.

A plaque to Valor i Vives at the University of Valencia .
Statue of Enric Valor in Picanya , sculptured by the artist César Marco in 2006.