Baltasar Porcel is the author of a large body of work covering non-fiction, travel writing and fiction, among which standout titles are: Mediterráneo, Una historia personal, Primaveras y otoños, Lola y los peces muertos, El corazón del jabalí, El emperador o El ojo del ciclón, Olympia a medianoche and Cada castillo y todas las sombras. Thought of as one of the classic authors of Catalan literature of all time, he is among the Hispanic authors with most international reach. He has received many prizes including the Boccaccio (en Italia), Mediterranée (en Francia), Sant Jordi, Ramon Llull, Prudenci Bertrana, Josep Pla, Nacional, de la Crítica, Mariano de Cavia and Godó. Harold Bloom has written that the work of Baltasar Porcel 'is at the same level as that of Don DeLillo or Philip Roth'.