Verònica Cantó

President of the Valencian Academy of Language. Degree in Philosophy and Letters (Catalan Philology Section) from the University of Alicante in 1987. Director of publications at Alcoy’s Editorial Marfil since 1989. President of the Association of Publishers of the Valencian Region from 1999 to 2002. Member of the board of directors of the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain. Member of the Arc Mediterrani i Cultura Popular work teams of the CEP school in Torrent from 1995 to 1998. Contributor to the newspaper Levante-EMV in the Valencian courses published in the Aula supplement during the years 1999, 2000 and 2001. Archivist of the Heritage Archive of the Board of Moors and Christians Festival of Cocentaina during the years 1989 and 1990. Lecturer in Valencian at the Institute of Education Sciences of the University of Alicante during the 1987/1988 academic year. Teacher of Valencian at the IES school in Novelda, and the IES schools of Miguel Hernández and Jaime II in Alicante, during the 1988/1989 academic year. Author of several books aimed at non-university teaching and books on learning Valencian, Ortografia Valenciana; Els nostres verbs; Els pronoms febles; Diftongs, accentuació i dièresi; Valencià pas a pas. Elemental; Valencià pas a pas. Mitjà; Valencià pas a pas. Superior; Valencian grammar. Awarded the Joan Valls i Jordà Prize for the use and promotion of Valencian in 2003, organised by the Associació Cultural Amics de Joan Valls i Jordà d'Alcoi.