Joan Francesc Mira i Casterà (born December 3, 1939, in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish writer, anthropologist and sociologist.

[1] He is an honorary member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana and President of Acció Cultural del País Valencià.

[2] Around the valencianist and historical theme, his works include Crítica de la Nació Pura (1985), which he discusses the concept of nation, Sobre la nació dels valencians (1997) and Els Borja, família i mite ("The Borgia: family and myth", 2000).

During the seventies he collaborates in the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale from Sorbonne, and in 1978+1979 he was lecturer at the Princeton University.

[1] He is also author of novels and short stories as El bou de foc (1974), Els cucs de seda (1975), Viatge al final del fred (1984), Els treballs perduts (1989) – Lectors del Temps Award, 1990 and a thematic approach to Ulysses from Joyce-, Borja Papa (1996), Quatre qüestions d'amor (1998) and Purgatori (2002).