Bio

Sebastià Portell is a Majorcan writer, author of the novels Ariel i els cossos (2019) and El dia que va morir David Bowie (2016, Time Out Creator of the Year Award) and the non-fiction book Les nenes que llegien al lavabo (2021), as well as the plays Transbord (2018) and Un torrent que era la mar (2013, City of Badalona Theatre Award), among others. He has also taken care of volumes such as the biographical interview Antònia Vicens. Massa deutes amb les flors (2016), Davant el fulgor. Per a llegir l’obra d’Antònia Vicens (2018, together with Sebastià Perelló), and Amors sense casa (2018), the first catalan LGBTQ+ poetry anthology. He is the secretary of the Association of Writers in Catalan Language and member of the PEN Català.

Project

I will take part of the european project «Be (P)Art. Grow with arts», promoted by the PEN Català, as a facilitator. I will encourage debates around topics such as the creative processes and techniques of the participants of the etage, how to communicate and promote our literary work or the freedom of expression.