Rafael Argullol i Murgadas (Catalan pronunciation: [r??f?? ?r?u????]) (Barcelona 1949) is a Catalan Spanish writer, philosopher, poet, blogger and professor of aesthetics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he also directs the Institut Universitari de Cultura. The author of 25 books, he was granted the 1993 Nadal prize for his novel La razón del mal and the 2002 Fondo de Cultura Económica essay prize for Una educación sensorial.