Sebastià Portell

Sebastià Portell (ses Salines, 1992). Writer and playwright, he collaborates with various media and he is the president of the Catalan writers association, AELC.

He is the author of the novels Ariel i els cossos (2019) and El dia que va morir David Bowie (2016), that deserved the Time Out Barcelona Award for Creator of the Year, the short stories of Maracaibo (2014) and several theatrical works such as Un torrent que era la mar  (2013, Ciutat de Badalona Theater Award) or Transbord (2018). He has also published some non fiction works and he is been responsible for the very first anthology of Catalan LGBTQ poetry Amors sense casa (2018).  In 2021 he publishes Les nenes que llegien al lavabo (The Girls Who Read In The Bathroom), Ara Llibres, a cry for freedom in reading and writing, with great success.
 
With Les altures (The heights), Empúries 2022, his new and most ambitious novel, Portell delves into the life of Ismael Smith, one of the most queer, genuine and exceptional figures in Catalan artistic heritage.

 

I have always lived literature as a party.

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