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Borja de Riquer i Permanyer (Barcelona, 1945) is a Catalan historian specializing in 19th- and 20th century Catalan and Spanish history. His father was the literary schilar Martí de Riquer i Morera and his mother was Maria Isabel Permanyer i Cintrón. He earned a degree from the University of Barcelona in 1968. In 1969, he took a job as a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he became chair of contemporary history in 1988. He was a member of Bandera Roja as a young man and in 2015 he signed a statement in support of Barcelona en Comú.

The Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi (Saint George's Cross) on April 11, 2017.

In November 2018, he was elected president of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, succeeding Pere Molas i Ribalta, who had held the postion since 2006.