Rafel Nadal (born 1954, Girona) is a Spanish journalist and writer.

He has published Els Mandarins (Columna, 2011); Quan érem feliços (Destino, 2012); Quan en dèiem xampany (Columna, 2013); La Maledicció dels Palmisano (Columna, 2015),[1] a bestseller published in 22 languages; and La senyora Stendhal (Columna, 2017).

[2] In 2014 he won the Maria Àngels Anglada Prize for Quan en dèiem xampany.

[3] 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.