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Francesc de Paula Burguera was a great friend of Joan Fuster, with whom he shared political and literary ideals, and he started his Valencian Trajectory in the forties.  Poet and play write, he also focused on the journalistic activity as a political commentator in several media.

Francesc de Paula Burguera was born in Sueca (Ribera Baixa) in 1928. He is the author of the poetic compilation “Ara sóc ací” (1949) and of the dramatic work “L’home de l’aigua” (1958). He was the leader of the Partit Demòcrata Liberal del País Valencià and in the legislative elections in 1997 was elected deputy on the UCD political party, group he abandoned in order to join the mixed group. He founded the Partit Nacionalista del País Valencià and was the general secretary of it until 1982. It was then when he started his labour as a journalist writing in several newspapers and news agencies.  In 1983 he became coordinator and head of press of the CiU parlamentary groups in the Spanish Senate and the Congress of Deputies until 1999. 

He was awarded with important prices and civic and cultural recognitions, such as the Medalla de la Universitat de València; the Vicent Ventura award, the Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat de Catalunya; Valencian of the year 2000 by the Fundació Huguet de Castelló and he was also recognised by the Societat el Micalet de Valencia; the Medalla de Oro of the city council of Sueca and the city of Xixona, among other distinctions awarded by cultural and civic institutions and associations.