– In 1984, he was awarded the Valencia City Council’s Critics’ Prize for a Novel in Spanish for the novel *El Gran Danés*.
– In July 1984, the Association of Writers in the Spanish Language presented his novel *El Gran Danés*.
– Following various interviews and glowing reviews in diverse newspapers and literary magazines, the prestigious critic Santos Sanz Villanueva wrote the following about him in 1992, within the History and Criticism of Spanish Literature (edited by Francisco Rico):
“Vicente Puchol is one of the most vigorous practitioners in our country of a narrative style rooted in allegory and possessing a tone that is, at times, Kafkaesque. His novels—dense, symbolic, and inclined toward the recounting of inventive episodes—contain a strong critical dimension regarding the moral and social values of our time.”