Baltasar Porcel
Baltasar Porcel i Pujol | |
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| Born | 14 March 1937 Andratx, Mallorca |
| Died | 1 July 2009 (aged 71) Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Notable awards | Prudenci Bertrana Prize 1997 Ulises a alta mar Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes 2007 |
Baltasar Porcel i Pujol (Catalan pronunciation: [bəltəˈza puɾˈsɛl]; Andratx, Majorca, 14 March 1937 – Barcelona, 1 July 2009) was a Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature from the 20th century.
Biography[]
He was born on 14 March 1937 in Andratx, Majorca. His catalan language works has been translated into Spanish, German, English, French, Italian and Vietnamese among others. He also won several literary prizes. As a journalist he worked in La Vanguardia, Última Hora and Catalunya Ràdio. Since 1960 he lived in both Barcelona and Majorca. He was the president of the since 1989 to 2000. In 2001 he won the Ramon Llull Novel Award for L'emperador o l'ull del vent .[1] In 2002 he won the and in 2007 the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. He also received in Italy the Bocaccio Prize, in France the Prix Méditerranée and in the United States the .
Porcel died on 1 July 2009 at the age of 72 after several years battling cancer.[2]
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Interviews[]
Literature biographies[]
Travels[]
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Theatre[]
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References[]
- ^ Obiols, Isabel (26 January 2001). "Baltasar Porcel obtiene el Premio Ramon Llull" [Baltasar Porcel Gets the Ramon Llull Award]. El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ Notice of his death in elmundo.es
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- Spanish male writers
- Writers from Catalonia
- Catalan-language writers
- Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes winners
- 1937 births
- 2009 deaths
- 20th-century Spanish journalists