Josep Massot (Palma de Mallorca, 1956) was the founder of one of the first Spanish newspapers born in democracy, El Día. At La Vanguardia he was in charge of artistic and literary news. He has written many articles on the work of Tàpies, a Catalan painter and sculptor. He is also an expert on Joan Miró, of whom he has published a biography and the artist's correspondence with Dalí. He has written prefaces for philosophy books on Socrates and Nietzsche, as well as the prologue of Journal, 1887-1910 by Jules Renard, with Ignacio Vidal-Folch. Since 2018 he writes for El País.
