Editing Enric Valor i Vives (section)

==Biography==
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 [[satire|satirical]] newspaper ''El Tio Cuc'', in Valencian. During the [[Second Spanish Republic]] he started to become politically active. His main demand was for [[autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous status]] for the [[Valencian Country]]. He was also at this time working in the [[Valencia, Spain|city of Valencia]] in the nationalist [[newspaper]]s  ''La República de les Lletres'', ''El Camí'' and ''El País Valencià''. When the [[Spanish Civil War]] broke out he supported the Spanish Republic.

[[Francoist Spain|After the war]], he cut back on his political activities to concentrate on [[literature]]. At the beginning of the 1950s he started to compile "''[[rondalles]]''", a type of [[Folk culture|folk]] narrative, which were published as ''Rondalles valencianes'' (1950–1958). During the 1960s he returned to underground political activities involving Valencian [[nationalism]] and, as a result, he became a [[political prisoner]] of [[Francisco Franco]]'s [[Spanish State]] from 1966 to 1968. Once out of prison he founded almost the first [[magazine]] in Valencian in the postwar period; ''Gorg'' ("Whirl", in Valencian). When the Francoist State ended, Enric Valor was able to spread freely his opinions and literary works. He became honoured with many important literary and linguistic awards from all over the ''[[Països Catalans]]''. 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.

Valor then died in 2000.