Baltasar Porcel i Pujol (Andratx

Andratx

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, Majorca, March 14, 1937 - Barcelona

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, July 1, 2009) was a balearic

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 writer, journalist and literary critic

Literary criticism

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. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature

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 from the 20th century.

Biography

He was born on 14 March 1937 in Andratx

Andratx

Andratx is a municipality on Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands, along the Mediterranean east coast of Spain. It is located on the southwest tip of the island.-History:...

, Majorca. His catalan language

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 works has been translated into spanish, german, english, french, italian and vietnamese among others. He also won several literary prices. As a journalist he worked in La Vanguardia

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, Última Hora

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 and Catalunya Ràdio

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. Since 1960 he lived in both Barcelona and Majorca. He was the president of the Catalan Institute for the Mediterranean since 1989 to 2000. In 2002 we won the National prize of Literature of Catalonia and in 2007 the Prermi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. He also received in Italy the Bocaccio Prize, in France the Prix Méditerranée

Prix Méditerranée

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 and in the United States the Critic's Choice.

He was married with the Valencian writer Concha Alós, spanish translator of some of his works.

Porcel died July 1, 2009 at the age of 72 after several years battling cancer.

Novel

• 1961 Solnegre
• 1963 La lluna i el Cala Llamp
• 1965 Els escorpins
• 1968 Els argonautes
• 1970 Difunts sota els ametllers en flor
• 1975 Cavalls cap a la fosca
• 1980 Les pomes d'or
• 1984 Els dies immortals
• 1986 Les primaveres i les tardors
• 1989 El divorci de Berta Barca
• 1994 Lola i els peixos morts
• 1997 Ulisses a alta mar
• 2000 El cor del senglar
• 2001 L'emperador o l'ull del vent
• 2004 Olympia a mitjanit
• 2008 Cada castell i totes les ombres

Essay

• 1967 Viatge literari a Mallorca
• 1967 Arran de mar
• 1968 Viatge a les Balears menors
• 1969 Els xuetes
• 1969 Exercicis més o menys espirituals
• 1973 Debat català
• 1977 Diàlegs
• 1987 Els meus inèdits de Llorenç Villalonga
• 1990 A totes les illes
• 1993 Camprodon. Una vall del Pirineu.

Literature biographies

• 1972 Grans catalans d'ara
• 2002 El drama i la mar. Entrevista amb Jacint Verdaguer.

Travels

• 1971 Crònica d'atabalades navegacions
• 1977 Camins i ombres
• 1984 Les illes encantades
• 1996 Mediterrània. Onatges tumultuosos.

Short novel

• 1979 Reivindicació de la vídua Txing
• 1982 El misteri de l'alzinar i altres contes
• 1984 Tots els contes
• 2002 Les maniobres de l'amor: Tots els contes, 1958-2001

Theatre

• 1959 Els condemnats
• 1962 La simbomba fosca
• 1965 Teatre
• 1981 Els dolços murmuris del mar

As actor

• 1960 Els condemnats. València: Teatre Estudi.
• 1962 La simbomba fosca. Companyia Agrupació Dramàtica de Barcelona.
• 1962 Èxode. Barcelona: Companyia Teatre Experimental Català.
• 1965 El general. Grup Sis x Set: Terrassa.
• 1965 Romanç de cec. Grup Sis x Set: Terrassa.

Works for TV

• El món en català.
• L'espai de Baltasar Porcel.
• Una nit d'estiu.
• L'entrevista impossible, Jacint Verdaguer.

Foreign language works

• 1989 Baleares
• 1994 Viajes expectantes. De Marrakech a Pekín.
• 2004 Geografías expectantes