Joan Fuster i Ortells (23rd November 1922 – 21st June 1992) was a Valencian

Valencian Community

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 writer, who published mostly in Catalan

Catalan language

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He was born in the village of Sueca

Sueca

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 near Valencia, Spain

Spain

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, in a relatively prosperous middle class family. Both his parents were pious Roman Catholics and Carlists. His father was a renowned local sculptor of mostly reliogious sculptures. In 1947 Fuster graduated with a degree in law and he received a doctoral degree in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

 philology

Philology

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 in 1985.