Sebastià Portell

Sebastià Portell is a writer and translator. He has published the plays Transbord (2018, finalist of the 4th Dramaturgy Tournament of the Balearic Islands), L’endemà de Fedra (2015), Un torrent que era la mar (2013, Ciutat de Badalona Prize for Theatre) and La mort de na Margalida (2012), as well as the novels Les altures (2022), Ariel i els cossos (2019) and El dia que va morir David Bowie (2016), with which he won the Time Out Award for Creator of the Year. Additionally, he has published several volumes of non-fiction and has curated Amors sense casa (2018), the first anthology of Catalan LGBTIQ+ poetry. He is also a translator from Galician and English to Catalan. Since 2022, he has been the president of the Association of Catalan Language Writers (AELC), and from May 2026, he is president of the European Writers’ Council (EWC), the federation of European writers’ associations.