The Valencian poet and author Josep Piera dies on the age of 78 | Culture | EUROtoday

The Valencian poet and author Josep Piera died this Sunday, as reported by the Gandia City Council, which mourned his dying and prolonged its condolences to the household and associates of “one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Valencian literature.”

Born in Beniopa, Gandia, 78 years in the past, Josep Piera Rubio graduated in educating in Valencia, the place he got here into contact with the literary motion often known as the Generation of the 70s, of which he was one of many predominant representatives. He cultivated autobiographical narration, impressed by the experiences of his quite a few journeys by way of the Mediterranean, with lengthy stays in Greece, Italy and Morocco, and within the landscapes of La Drova, in Barx (Valencia), the place he settled from 1974.

He additionally printed biographies of Valencian figures reminiscent of Ausiàs March, San Francisco de Borja and Teodoro Llorente; He developed necessary work as a translator, each of Andalusian Arabic poetry and up to date Italian poetry; He based literary magazines, and directed the publications of the Tres i Quatre publishing home.

Throughout his life he acquired quite a few recognitions, such because the Ausiàs March, Carles Riba, Josep Pla and Alfons el Magnànim awards, the Creu de Sant Jordi, the excellence as Favorite Son of Gandia and the Distinction of the Generalitat Valenciana in 2021 for his excellent literary profession and “his indispensable participation, for half a century, in Valencian cultural life.” In 2023 he acquired the fifty fifth Honor Prize for Catalan Literature, awarded by Òmnium Cultural, in recognition of his literary profession, in an act by which he claimed his land, particularly the Drova space, his “place in the world.”

The mayor of Gandia, José Manuel Prieto, has been deeply saddened and shocked by Piera’s dying and has assured that “an exceptional writer” is misplaced, in addition to “a good man” who leaves an “immeasurable legacy of wisdom and good writing.”