Baltasar Porcel i Pujol (;

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, 14 March 1937 –

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, 1 July 2009) was a Spanish writer, journalist and

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

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from the 20th century.

Biography

He was born on 14 March 1937 in

. His

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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

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, Última Hora and

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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 2001 he won the

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for ''L'emperador o l'ull del vent'' . In 2002 he won the National prize of Literature of Catalonia and in 2007 the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. He also received in Italy the Bocaccio Prize, in France the

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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.Notice of his death in elmundo.es
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Works

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.''

Interviews

* 2003 ''L'àguila daurada''

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''

Complete works

* 1991–1997 ''Obres completes'' (7 volums)

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''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Porcel Pujol, Baltasar 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