He was appointed as Instructor and Secretary of the dossier, respectively the Councillor for Education Ms. Maria Remedios Lajara Domínguez and the Director of the Municipal Department of Communication D. Alfonso Garcia Yagüe.
On Monday 14, during the celebration of the ordinary session of the month December, a draft agreement for the initiation of proceedings rose in order to award posthumously, to Mrs. Maria Martinez Yago Portal, the title of Favourite Daughter Yecla city.
Agreement was approved by most of the plenary.
Ms. Maria del Portal was born in Yecla on December 24, 1930 and died in this city on 8 June 2015. In 1964, he earned a doctorate degree in Romance Philology from the University of Murcia.
His research far exceeds the scope yeclano.
From a young age, he published several papers in the journal Monteagudo University of Murcia.
In the late 60s of last century, the Portal Maria Martinez worked for the then prestigious publisher Bruguera, prolonging works of Maria de Zayas, Fernan Caballero, Palacio Valdes, Azorin, Gomez de la Serna.
Some of these studies continue to be essential reference in the world of literary criticism.
Lecturer in and out of Spain, was among the first to attend symposia on the work of Azorín periodically organizes the French University of Pau.
Likewise, it is largely the organization of two international courses, with the City of Yecla and the University of Murcia, which have been held in our town on Azorín and Castillo-Puche.
Occasional short story writer in his youth published several, being awarded in 1961 with the Gabriel Miró Prize for his story "I remember ..." he began his teaching career in Murcia, reaching Yecla in 1965 and gaining access to the body professors in 1980, leaving an imprint professor on several generations of students in our city sling.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla