Baltasar Porcel
Baltasar Porcel i Pujol | |
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 Porcel in 2006 | |
| 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: 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
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 .[1] In 2002 he won the National Prize of Literature of Catalonia[citation needed] 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 Critic's Choice
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Porcel died on 1 July 2009 at the age of 72 after several years battling cancer.[2]
Works
Novel
Essay
Interviews
Literature biographies
Travels
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Short novel
Theatre
Complete works
As actor
Works for TV
Foreign language works
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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
External links
- "Baltasar Porcel". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
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