Josep Palomero
Josep Palomero i Almela (Borriana, 1953) is a Valencian linguist and vice-president of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (Valencian Language Academy). He has a degree in Spanish Philology in the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Palomero has combined the job of teacher for high school students, his political career in his village, some positions during some time in the Education Department of the Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian regional government), with his literary tasks, always in Catalan language. In 2016 he got his PhD degree in the Jaume I University
Works
- About Borriana
- L'etimologia del nom Borriana (1976)
- Pell de taronja, mig segle [1890–1940] d'arquitectura a Borriana (1986)
- Antroponímia popular de Borriana: els malnoms (1987)
- Toponímia urbana de Borriana (1980)
- La literatura popular a Borriana (1990)
- Poetic works
- Innocents de pagana decadència (1978)
- Crònica carnal (1980)
- Quaderns de bitàcola (1986)
- La rosa dels vents (1997)
- Fiction works
- El col·leccionista de botons (1979)
- El pardalet sabut i el rei descregut (1982)
- El pianista de jazz (1983)
- La font d'en Galceran (1989)
- Ball de màscares (1992)
- Vuit contes i mig (1993)
- Els secrets de Meissen (1994)
- El tatuatge dels apàtrides (1997)
- Zona de lliure trànsit (2001, with Vicente Muñoz Puelles)
Furthermore, he has made translations, cinema adaptations and scripts for TV.
Awards
Josep Palomero has gotten several literary awards. The following ones can be pointed out: Jordi de Sant Jordi award, from the Ciutat de València awards (1980), Tirant lo Blanc award (1982), Prize of the Critics of the Valencian Writers (1994), Ciutat d'Alzira award for Novel (1996) and the Theater Eduard Escalante award (2001), among others.
External links
- Info about Josep Palomero in the website of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Writers in Catalan Language). (Catalan)
- Info about Josep Palomero in the website of the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (Valencian Language Academy). (Catalan)