Baltasar Porcel

Baltasar Porcel was born in 1937 in Andratx, on the coast of Majorca, and from 1960 divided his life between Barcelona and his island. A journalist, he wrote for La Vanguardia and Última Hora and spoke on Catalan radio. He wrote mainly in Catalan and made his native village the legendary heart of much of his work, which has been translated into many languages. From 1989 to 2000, he presided over the Catalan Institute of the Mediterranean. He received the National Literature Prize of Catalonia in 2002 and the Honorary Award for Catalan Letters in 2007, and died in Barcelona in 2009.

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