Vicent Andrés Estellés Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 1993, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Valencia.

Estellés spent a few years in Benimodo, a municipality in the comarca of Ribera Alta, in the Valencian Community. During this period, he combined poetry with prose in his works. He received several awards in the 1990s, including the Premis Octubre.

His most important prose works are “El coixinet” (The Little Cushion) (1988), his play “L’oratori del nostre temps” (The Oratory of Our Times) (1978), and his memoirs: “Tractat de les maduixes” (Strawberry Treaty) (1985), “Quadern de Bonaire” (Bonaire’s Notebook) (1985), and “La parra boja” (The Crazy Vine) (1988).

There is also a bronze statue in Emilio Castelar square, in Burjassot, Andrés Estellés’s birthplace. This piece, showing him sitting on a park bench, writing on top of a pile of books, has suffered four loutish attacks. For instance, it was covered in blue paint and the arms of his glasses were broken. Likewise, extreme right blavers attempted to destroy a bust of Estellés that was put up in Burjassot in 1979.

From that moment onwards, Estellés began to gain recognition and published his Complete Works, including “Recomane tenebres” (I Would Recommend the Dark) (1972), “Les pedres de l’àmfora” (The Stones from the Amphora) (1974), “Manual de conformitats” (Manual of Conformities) (1977), “Balanç de Mar” (Swing of the Sea) (1978), “Cant temporal” (Temporary Singing) (1980), “Les homilies d’Organyà” (Homilies of Organyà) (1981) which includes “Coral romput”, “Versos para Jackeley” (Verses for Jackeley) (1983), “Vaixell de vidre” (Glass Ship) (1984), “La lluna de colors” (Colourful Moon) (1986), y “Sonata d’Isabel” (Isabel’s Sonata) (1990).

From the 1970s onwards, he published more frequently and received numerous awards. He published “Lletres de canvi” (Bills of Exchange)(1970), “Primera audició” (First Audition) (1971), “L’inventari clement” (The Clement Inventory) (1971). In (1971) he published two major works: “La clau que obri tots els panys” (The Key That Opens All Locks) (which contained “Coral Romput” (Broken Coral)) and the best-seller “Llibre de les meravelles” (Book of Marvels), perhaps his most famous work.

In 1958 he became editor-in-chief of Las Provincias, only to be dismissed for political reasons in 1978, thus being forced into early retirement at the age of 54. This allowed him to devote himself entirely to writing and engaging in a variety of cultural activities, such as art exhibitions. That same year, Estellés was awarded the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. In 1984 he was awarded the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Valencianes.

In 1955 Estellés married Isabel. The couple had a daughter, who died when she was four months old. After the death, which Estellés recalled in Coral romput, death became a recurring theme in his works.

His first publications were “Ciutat a cau d’orella” (Whispered City) (1953), “La nit” (The Night) (1956), “Donzell amarg” (Bitter Youth) (1958) and “L’amant de tota la vida” (The Lifelong Lover) (1966), which are only a small selection of what he had written at that point.

In 1942, at the age of 18, Estellés moved to Madrid to study for a degree in Journalism. Three years later, he left to do his military service in Navarre. At the age of 24, he moved back to Valencia and became a journalist for the newspaper Las Provincias. He befriended Joan Fuster, Xavier Casp and Manuel Sanchis i Guarner – all three of them well-known Valencian writers – and met Isabel, who would later influence his writings as well.

Vicent Andrés Estellés (Valencian pronunciation: [viˈsɛnt anˈdɾes esteˈʎes]; 4 September 1924 in Burjassot, Valencia – 27 March 1993 in Valencia) was a Spanish journalist and poet. He is considered one of the main renovators of modern Valencian poetry, with a similar role to that of Ausiàs March or Joan Roís de Corella in earlier periods.