The XXVII edition of the Premi Enric Valor de Novel·la in Valencià convened by the Diputación de Alicante already knows its winner. The writer of Ondara Jovi Lozano-Seser. The work that has led him to the award of 20.000 euros is After maig, abans de l'estiu.
The first vice president and deputy for Culture, Julia Parra, congratulated the author and highlighted "that this year the jury has selected a writer and journalist from Alicante, a native of Ondara, with a long literary career."
The jury has been chaired by Julia Parra and has had as members the provincial deputy Mª Teresa García, Rafael Poveda, writer and oenologist, Isabel Marcillas and María Ángeles Francés, doctors in Catalan Philology, Vicent Ferrán García Perales, adjunct professor at the University CEU Cardenal Herrera, Carol Borrás, graduate in Audiovisual Communication, and Carlos Ferrer, graduate in Philology.
Jovi Seser and his work
Born in Ondara in 1979, Lozano-Seser is a journalist, writer and communicator. Although he debuted on the literary scene with volumes of short stories If you answer and a novel the uncertain y Side Effects. He also has a novel in his repertoire (A fictional story, Tabarca) and has practiced genre experimentation in last stock, distinguished work with the Ciutat de València Award 2011.
In the work awarded by the Diputación, the protagonist is a nurse who takes refuge in her hometown after losing her husband to COVID. In the words of the author himself, “more than a novel, my work is a spiritual chronicle of the pandemic in the key of vital testimony and overcoming. It is also a tribute to the uniqueness of our peoples and the leading role of women in the Mediterranean oral tradition”.
The exploration of creative languages has also led him to the theater as a playwright (F, The book of cares, Premi Evarist Garcia 2017), for research and essay (D'Ondara to Broadway: L'excepcionalitat de Trini Reyes) and even to film adaptations, with the tape Chanel #5 of his story red.
The translator (Vila de Lloseta Award 2015) was his second novel and You ask that they have to be remogudes (Alfons el Magnànim Award 2019) his first foray into black narrative. On the professional side, the ondarenc has combined cultural management and collaboration with the media as a columnist and broadcaster, and has been a technician and manager of the MACMA (Mancomunitat Cultural de la Marina Alta) between 2008 and 2022.
History of the Enric Valor Award
The award convened by the provincial institution recognizes the work undertaken by Enric Valor i Vives for the normalization of the Valencian Community's own language from his facets as author and researcher. This discipline made him worthy of important recognitions such as the Valencian Letters awarded by the Valencia City Council, the Sanchís Guarner Prize, the Sant Jordi Cross of the Generalitat de Catalunya or the Gold Medal of the Province of Alicante, granted as posthumous by the Diputación de Alicante.
The deputy Julia Parra has highlighted "the long journey and prestige of the contest, which reaches its twenty-seventh edition as one of the recognitions of Valencian authors with the most projection in the Valencian Community".
