The Delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has presided over the tenth edition of the Day of the Writers under the motto 1975: Write, companions, organized by the Classic and Modern Association.
In 1975, “words became a form of freedom, a way of taking words after decades of silence.” In this act, Pilar Bernabé recalled María Beneyto, who has been declared by the Valencian Academy of Language, Writer of the Year 2025. “If someone wrote in the dark, if someone kept the word alive in a time of shadows, that was her,” said the delegate.
María Beneyto, he added, was the “writer who gave name and voice to people who had never been protagonists: women, boys and girls, workers, old people, people without a home or voice”. With it, “we understand the human condition in the face of adversity”, and its characters “live in precariousness, but also in the dignity of those who rise every day”. María Beneyto – added the delegate – “wrote in difficult times for women and chose two languages to do so in an environment dominated by men, but always with a look of her own and without asking permission”. “She was a feminist without proclaiming it. She was a feminist in her way of looking, thinking and giving voice”, said the delegate, for whom the Valencian writer “understood before many that equality is also written”.