FiC commends Joan Veny i Clar for recent literary nods

President of the Formentera Island Council, Jaume Ferrer Ribas, and councillor of culture Sònia Cardona Ferrer, have sent congratulations on behalf of the people of Formentera to professor emeritus at the Universitat de Barcelona and member of the philology department at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans Joan Veny i Clar for his recently-bestowed honour, the 2015 Premi d'Honor for Catalan literature.

The premi d'honor recognises the matchless efforts of Veny i Clar in the research and promotion of Catalan linguistics. Its recipient, a specialist in dialectology, has been a driving force in making the different territorial varieties of Catalan known to the greater population.

With highly-lauded linguistic studies comprising his oeuvre – Els parlars catalans, Introducció a la dialectologia and his forthcoming masterwork Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català, Veny i Clar has always paid special attention to the Catalan of the Pitiüsa Islands, studying and reflecting upon its particularities in numerous publications.