Dénia pays tribute to María Ibars, a unique writer in times of dictatorship

Last Friday, January 9, Dénia paid tribute to the writer María Ibars on the fiftieth anniversary of her death. The simple act took place on the street that bears the name of the writer, near Plaça Jaume I, and was chaired by the mayor, Ana Kringe.

There we could see the councilor for education and culture, Pepa Sivera; numerous councilors from the municipal corporation and representatives of the IES María Ibars and the Raquel Payà Special Education College.

In addition to remembering the life of the writer, in the event some of his poems were read. They participated in this reading the headmistress Raquel Payà, Maite Martí; the student Cristian Ferrer; Pepa Ribes, driving the appointment of the institute as María Ibars; and pepetoni Server, director of the center.

María Ibars

Councilwoman culture was in charge of talking about the figure of the teacher and writer María Ibars, born in Valencia in 1892 and living in Dénia since her family moved when she had few months.

María Ibars spent his childhood and adolescence in the neighborhoods of Saladar and Baix la Mar, and in summer at the family home campus, Penyamar, which also gave its name to one of his books best-known poems, Poemes de Penyamar: in the shadow of Montgó (1949)

branded as «una mujer singular para los años que le tocó vivir», María Ibars won the title of teacher in the School of Education of Valencia in 1913, and soon began working as such in the Font de la Figuera, where she met her husband. In 1917 were married in the church of San Antonio or Convent del Mar, As she called it, and a few years their children were born, Darius and Raquel Payà, renowned pedagogue that names the school's special education Denia.

María Ibars and his family moved to Valencia, where their children started college, and was thereafter when integrated into the intellectual world of valencianismo.

From the years 40, María Ibars began his literary production, becoming one of the few Valencian writers of the time with a work in which «se puede observar una mirada femenina que dota de protagonismo a las mujeres y una cierta denuncia de las condiciones de desigualdad en una sociedad rural y patriarcal».