Date of appointment: 26 july 1993.
By proposal of: Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication.
Date of investiture: 30 november 1993.
Sponsor: Dr. Manel Pérez Saldanya and Dr. Vicent Escrivá Peiró.
Enric Valor i Vives was born in Castalla in 1911.
He studies Catalan language and literature practically self-taught.
At nineteen he began to collaborate with the satirical magazine El Tio Cuc, from where he promoted the adoption of the spelling of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.
In times of the Republic, he intensifies his task as a journalist, writer and political activist. He founded the Regionalist Agrupació Alcantina, nationalist. At the same time he collaborates regularly in the Valencian nationalist press, such as El Camí, El País Valencià and La República de les Lletres.
From a very young age, Enric Valor collaborates with the contribution of lexical materials from southern Valencia for the creation of the Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear. It is also the main disseminator of the factory spelling and defender of the rules of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans adapting them to the Valencian modality. Titles such as Valencian Language Course (1966), Millorem el llenguatge (1971), Curs mitjà de gramatica catalana, referred to the País Valencià (1977) and La flexió verbal (1983), among others, have been of great importance for the teaching and dissemination of the language of Valencià Country.
After the war he participated actively in clandestine gatherings and between 1966 and 1968 he was imprisoned. From the arrival of democracy, Valor began to be recognized as a classic author of a great grammatical authority.
Outstanding works:
L'ambició d'Aleix. 1950
Sense the terra promise (Cicle de Cassana), 1980
Temps de batuda (Cicle de Cassana), 1983
Enllà de l'horitzó (Cicle de Cassana), 1991
Distinctions:
Member of the Institut de Filologia Valenciana, 1978
Sanchis Guarner Prize of the Diputació de València, 1983
Prize de les Lletres Valencianes de l'Ajuntament de València, 1985
Member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 1986
Member of the Consell Assessor of the Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana, 1987
Award of Honor of the Catalan Letters, 1987
Honorary Member and Vice President of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana
Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat de Catalunya, 1993
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat de València, 1993
Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Balearic Islands, 1998
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, 1999
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat d'Alacant, 1999
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universitat Politècnica de València, 1999
