Baltasar Porcel

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1937|3|14}}

| birth_place = Andratx, Mallorca

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2009|7|1|1937|3|14}}

| death_place = Barcelona, Spain

| occupation = Journalist, writer

| nationality = Spanish

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Baltasar Porcel i Pujol ({{IPA|ca|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 have been translated into Spanish, German, English, French, Italian and Vietnamese among other languages. He also won several literary prizes. As a journalist he worked on La Vanguardia, Última Hora and Catalunya Ràdio. From 1960 he lived in both Barcelona and Majorca. He was the president of the Catalan Institute for the Mediterranean from 1989 to 2000. In 2001 he won the Ramon Llull Novel Award for L'emperador o l'ull del vent .{{Cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/01/26/cultura/980463605_850215.html |title=Baltasar Porcel obtiene el Premio Ramon Llull |trans-title=Baltasar Porcel Gets the Ramon Llull Award |first=Isabel |last=Obiols |work=El País |location=Barcelona |language=Spanish |date=26 January 2001 |access-date=21 May 2019}} In 2002 he won the Catalan Premi Nacional de Literatura{{Cite web |url=https://www.epdlp.com/premios.php?premio=Nacional%20de%20Literatura%20de%20la%20Generalitat%20de%20Catalunya |title=Premio Nacional de Literatura de la Generalitat de Catalunya |author= |website=El Poder de la Palabra |language=es |access-date=5 November 2024 }} and in 2007 the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. He also received in Italy the Premio letterario Boccaccio, in France the Prix Méditerranée and in the United States the Critic's Choice.

Porcel died on 1 July 2009 at the age of 72 after several years battling cancer.[http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/07/01/obituarios/1246473099.html Notice of his death in elmundo.es]