Manuel Sanchis i Guarner (Valencia

Valencia (city in Spain)

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, 1911-1981) was a Valencian

Valencian Community

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 Spanish

Spain

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  philologist, historian and writer.

He was an author of a vast work ranging from studies of linguistics

Linguistics

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, literature

Literature

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, history

History

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, ethnography

Ethnography

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 to popular culture

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, basically centered on the Valencian Community

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, but also on the rest of the territories of the ancient Crown of Aragon

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 and the whole Iberian peninsula

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.

His most famous contributions were La llengua dels valencians (The language of the Valencians), first published in 1933, la Gramàtica valenciana (Valencian grammar) (1950), Els pobles valencians parlen els uns dels altres (Valencian towns speak about each other), or Aproximació a la història de la llengua catalana (An approach to the history of the Catalan language

Catalan language

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) (1980). He also collaborated in some major works such as Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear (Catala-Valencian-Balearic dictionary) or Història del País Valencià (History of the Valencian Country). In 1974, he was rewarded with the Honor Prize of the Catalan Letters.

External links

• Sanchis Guarner at the AELC (Association of Writers in Catalan Language) from which he was a member. Page in Catalan, English and Spanish.