Josep Porcar i Museros (Castelló de la Plana, 1973)

He has a degree in Journalism. After a baker’s apprenticeship in the prestigious «Miralles» bakery in Castelló de la Plana, he spent some years working as a journalist for the Castellón newspaper Levante, a badly paid and not very rewarding job that he eventually left to go and work in the sphere of graphic arts, specialising in the fields of publication and layout design. He presently keeps an Internet diary Salms (Psalms) and continues to write poetry. His work has appeared in the anthologies Poesia per a una dècada (Poetry for a Decade, Manises, 1995) and Poesia Noranta (Poetry Ninety, Oikos-tau, Barcelona, 1997), Vint-i-cinc anys de la poesia al País Valencià (Twenty-five Years of Poetry in the Valencia Region, CEIC Alfons el Vell, Gandia, 1999) and Poemes d'un segle. Poesia occidental del segle XX (Poems of a Century. Western Poetry of the 20th Century, Ed. 96, Carcaixent, 1999). He was been awarded the 1992 Solstici Prize, the 1993 Miguel Hernández Prize, the 1994 Senyoriu d'Ausiàs March Prize and the 1998 Vicent Andrés Estellés Prize. He has published the books Vint-i-dues mans de pintura (Twenty-two Coats of Paint, Ed. de la Guerra, Valencia, 1994), Crònica de l'ocupant (The Occupant's Chronicle, Ed. 3i4, Valencia, 1995), La culpa (Guilt, Ed. 3i4, Valencia, 1998) and Els estius (Summers, 2008). In 2014 he was awarded the Premi de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians prize of poetry for Llambreig (2013).



Web page: Carme Ros for AELC.
Documentation and Photograph: Personal files of the author.
Translation: Julie Wark.