Escartí has a degree in History and a PhD in Philology by the Universitat de València. He is professor of the Department of Catalan Language in this institution. He has published several studies and been in charge of the edition of Valencian literary and historiographical texts. Some of them were published by el Magnànim such as the works of Ausiàs March, ‘Llibre dels feits’ by Jaume I or ‘Vita Christi’ by Isabel de Villena. Escartí has been awarded with the Enric de Larratea Prize of the Institute of Catalan Studies for his study about Joaquim Aierdi (1996) and with the critical prize of the Inter-University Institute for Valencian Philology (2001). He has published some novels, for example, ‘Dies d’ira’ (Ciutat de Alzira Prize, 1991); ‘Els cabells d’Absalom’ (Ciutat d’Elx Prize, 1994); ‘Espècies perdudes’ (Andròmina Prize, 1996); ‘Nomdedéu’ (Ciutat de Gandia Prize, 2001); ‘Naumàquia’ (2004) and ‘L’abellerol mort’ (Ciutat de Xàtiva Prize, 2008). Furthermore, he usually cooperates with the media such as ‘Levante-EMV’ and ‘Saó’, and was the founder and director of the magazine ‘Scripta’. In this day and age he is the director of ‘Caplletra’. Since 2005 he is member of the Inter-University Institute for Valencian Language Studies and, since 2015, of the Royal Academy of Literature of Barcelona.

A new stage for Revista Valenciana de Filologia

The ‘Revista Valenciana de Filología’ tries to provide a series of rigorous studies about Valencian language, literature and culture from the perspective of the philology and the history of literature. And it takes into account the current literary production and the considerations about language nowadays. Each edition of the magazine will have a monographic space. The first one will be dedicated to Ausiàs March. Furthermore, the publication will be distributed in several sections, including contemporary literature, history of the language and dialectology, sociolinguistics and translation. It will also count on an interview and reviews. 

The ‘Revista Valenciana de Filología’ was created in 1951, under the supervision of Arturo Zabala and as a publication of the Instituto de Literatura y Estudios Filológicos de la Institución Alfons el Magnànim, and ceased to be published in 1981. Renowned people participated in this magazine such as Martí de Riquer, Manuel Sanchis Guarner, Joan Fuster, Antoni Badia Margarit, Germà Colón, Francesc Almela y Vives, Josep Maria de Cascuberta, Dámaso Alonso, Josep Romeu y Figueras, Fermí Cortés, Rosalia Guilleumas, Joan Amades, Pere Bohigas, Miquel Dolç, Joseph Gulsoy, Lluís Guarner, Mateu Rodrigo Lizondo or Antoni Ferrando.

Escartí has stated that the aim is to create a magazine “of the 21st century and, at the same time recover the prestige of the historical magazine”.