Jordi Bilbeny

Jordi Alzina i Bilbeny ( Arenys de Mar, October 14, 1961), better known as Jordi Bilbeny, is a philologist, researcher in history and folklore, writer and Catalan poet famous for his studies on censorship and the Spanish Inquisition . Many of his works denounce the manipulation and concealment of the history of the kingdoms of Catalonia, Valencia and Mallorca by the monarchical and state censorship.

Bilbeny has a degree in Catalan Philology by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has been a professor of Catalan language classes for adults at the Islamic Cultural Council of Catalonia and at the Women's Penitentiary of Barcelona (Wad-Ras), among other places. He launched the "Symposium on the Catalan discovery of America" in 2001. Bilbeny is a member of the "Arenysian Movement for Self-Determination", a local independentist movement, and of the Arenys de Munt's Popular Unity Candidacy, and was one of the organizers of the 2009 Catalan independence referendum in Arenys de Munt, for which he composed the anthem. He is a leading member of the Institut Nova Història, a research organisation which claims that Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and the author of Lazarillo de Tormes were Catalan.

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