Llorenç Villalonga i Pons
Llorenç Villalonga i Pons was born in Palma de Mallorca on March 1, 1897, and died on January 27, 1980. He was a Balearic writer and a psychiatrist. He studied medicine and traveled to France, Barcelona and Murcia, where he gained experience in psychiatry. He published his first book, Mort de Dama, which caused controversy for showing the decline of the rural aristocracy in the Balearic Islands during the 1920s. When the Spanish Civil War began and the Nationalists took Mallorca, he joined the Falange and supported anti-C Catalan actions, helping to destroy Catalan cultural groups there, and he began writing in Spanish. His novels include L'àngel rebel (1961), Desenllaç a Montlleó (1963), Lulú regina (1970), El misantrop (1972) and Un estiu a Mallorca (1975). After the war, his views changed and he joined the Catalan cultural resistance. In 1956 he published his best-known novel, Bearn. Later he wrote satirical works about technology, such as La gran batuda (1968), Flo la Vigne (1974) and Andrea Victrix (1974).
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