Background
Baltasar Porcel was born on March 14, 1937 in Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. Son of Baltasar and Sebastiana (Pujol) Porcel.
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journalist literary critic writer
Baltasar Porcel was born on March 14, 1937 in Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. Son of Baltasar and Sebastiana (Pujol) Porcel.
Baltasar Porcel was the author of a number of novels, essays, and short novels. His catalan language works has been translated into Spanish, German, English, French, Italian and Vietnamese among others.
As a journalist he worked in La Vanguardia, Última Hora and Catalunya Ràdio. Since 1960 he lived in both Barcelona and Majorca. He was the president of the Catalan Institute for the Mediterranean since 1989 to 2000.
Porcel died on 1 July 2009 at the age of 72 after several years battling cancer.
Quotations: “My primary motivation for writing is a desire to interpret the world through imagination, through the strength of words, and to communicate this to people. What particularly influences my work is the world that I know about, the Mediterranean, and man in its passions. My writing process is to absorb sensations, to glimpse ideas. It is a slow elaboration of mental and emotional atmosphere, a redaction as exigent as enthusiastic. Definitively, what inspires me to write on the subjects that I choose is my relation with reality."
Baltasar was married to the Valencian writer Concha Alós, Spanish translator of some of his works. Porcel had 2 children: Baltasar, Violant.
