Rafel Nadal is a Spanish journalist and writer. He has published Els Mandarins; Quan érem feliços; Quan en dèiem xampany; La Maledicció dels Palmisano, a bestseller published in 22 languages; and La senyora Stendhal.
In 2012, he was awarded with Josep Pla Award for Quan érem feliços.
In 2014 he won the Maria Àngels Anglada Prize for Quan en dèiem xampany.
In 2019, he published El fill de l’italià and won the most important prize in Catalan literature, the Ramon Llull Literary Award. As a journalist, he was director of El Periódico de Catalunya between 2006 and 2010.