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Carles Salvador, poet of Benassal

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Carles Salvador, poet of Benassal

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Carles Salvador i Gimeno (Valencia, 1893-1955) was a poet, grammarian and teacher, a key figure in the standardisation of Valencian: in 1919 he published El valenciano en las escuelas and took part in drafting the Normas de Castellón, which fixed Valencian spelling according to the grammar of Pompeu Fabra. He worked as a teacher in Benassal, a village that pays tribute to him with a monument in its square. Author of poetry collections such as Rosa dels vents and El bes als llavis and of a Gramática valenciana (1951), he was also permanent director of the Centro de Cultura Valenciana from 1935 and promoter of the Valencian language and literature courses of Lo Rat Penat.

Photo: Juan Emilio Prades Bel (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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