Rafel Nadal (born 1954,

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in 2020. Girona is the capit ...

) is a Spanish journalist and writer. He has published ''Els Mandarins'' (Columna, 2011); ''Quan érem feliços'' (Destino, 2012); ''Quan en dèiem xampany'' (Columna, 2013); ''La Maledicció dels Palmisano'' (Columna, 2015), a bestseller published in 22 languages; and ''La senyora Stendhal'' (Columna, 2017). In 2012, he was awarded with

Josep Pla Award The Josep Pla Award ( es, Premio Josep Pla, links=no; ca, Premi Josep Pla, links=no) is a Spanish literary prize, awarded by the Destino publishing house since 1968, to a prose text written in Catalan. It is open to all genres: novel, short stor ...

for ''Quan érem feliços.'' In 2014 he won the

Maria Àngels Anglada Prize The Maria Àngels Anglada Prize (in Catalan: ''Premi de Narrativa Maria Àngels Anglada''; ) is a Catalan literary award, given annually by the ''Institut Ramon Muntaner'' ("Ramon Muntaner Secondary School"), in Figueres (Spain), with the aim of co ...

for ''Quan en dèiem xampany''. In 2019, he published ''El fill de l’italià'' and won the most important prize in Catalan literature, the Ramon Llull Literary Award. As a journalist, he was director of

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between 2006 and 2010.

Works

* ''Els mandarins'' (2011, Columna) * ''Quan érem feliços'' (2012, Destino) * ''Quan en dèiem xampany'' (2013, Columna) * ''La maledicció dels Palmisano'' (2015, Columna) * ''La senyora Stendhal'' (2017, Columna) *''El fill de l'italià'' (2019, Columna)

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadal, Rafel People from Girona Catalan-language writers 1954 births Living people