Josep Igual Febrer (Benicarló, 1966 - Amposta, 2021) was a Valencian writer, poet, journalist, and singer-songwriter.

Devoted to literature from an early age, he co-founded the literary magazine Passadís and published columns in the press. He became known in the 1980s with the poetry collections Treva d’hivern and 35 poemes. After he moved to the Ebro Delta region in the 1990s, his poetry took on a more optimistic tone and he also began to publish prose works, including several novels, notable amongst which are Cabotatge (1997), Torn de nit (2005), and Música secundària (2015). His prose writing then diversified into other fields when he began to write short stories and novels, as well as essays in diary form. Plàncton is a good example of this latter style of writing, with personal opinions and reflections, which he published first as a blog and, eventually, on paper. He also published the essays L'any de la fi del món (2001), Quaderns deltaics (2009), and L'eternitat enamorada. Notes d'un diari, 2016-2017 (2020), inter alia.

His poetry, fiction, and essays have been praised by critics and have also received such prestigious literary awards as the City of Valencia Prize for Poetry (the former Roís de Corella Prize) and the Premi Joan Fuster Essay Prize.

Josep Igual Febrer died in Amposta on 25 March at the age of fifty-five years, leaving behind a legacy that is rich in its various forms of artistic expression.

Web page: Llucia Serra for AELC.
Cover photograph: © Prats i Camps.
Translation: Julie Wark.
Biography photographs: Author’s personal files, and Xus Valor, © Prats i Camps.