Maria Antònia Salvà: The poet who paid attention to rural Mallorca

Maria Antònia Salvà was born in Palma and spent part of her childhood with her aunts in Llucmajor. The landscape around the family estate of Sa Llapassa became part of her writing. In her poems, the island often comes into focus through ordinary things you might pass without a second glance.

From Palma to Llucmajor

Explore the area in our Llucmajor guide and our Palma Old Town guide.

A Mallorcan reader with a wider world

Salvà also translated writers including the Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral. It’s worth holding those two parts of her life together when you read her. A writer closely associated with one patch of Mallorca was also spending her days working out how to carry another writer’s words into Catalan.

Further reading: more on Maria Antònia Salvà.

Part of People of Mallorca.

Read next: Ramon Llull.

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