Manuel Sanchis i Guarner
Manuel Sanchis i Guarner was a Spanish philologist, historian and writer.
He was an author of a vast work ranging from studies of linguistics, literature, history, ethnography to popular culture, basically centered on the Valencian Community, but also on the rest of the territories of the ancient Crown of Aragon and the whole Iberian peninsula.
His most famous contributions were La llengua dels valencians, first published in 1933, la Gramàtica valenciana , Els pobles valencians parlen els uns dels altres, or Aproximació a la història de la llengua catalana . He also collaborated in some major works such as Diccionari Català-Valencià-Balear or Història del País Valencià. In 1974, he was rewarded with the Honor Prize of the Catalan Letters.
