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Àngels Cardona Palmer
Àngels Cardona Palmer (born 1951 in Palma) is a Catalan language writer, teacher and social and cultural activist who was raised on Mallorca. Biography Àngels Cardona Palmer was born in the neighborhood of Santa Catalina of Palma, Spain in 1951. After studying only in Spanish in a convent during the post-war period, in her maturity she decided to study again in her mother tongue, Catalan. She studied the works of Blai Bonet, Josep Maria Llompart, Maria Mercè Marçal Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra (13 November 1952 – 5 July 1998) was a Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator from Spain. Biography Marçal was born in Barcelona but spent her childhood in Ivars d'Urgell ( Pla d'Urgell), which she co ..., the writings by Clarice Lispector or Djuna Barnes, and the literary transgression of Charles Bukowski. Àngels Cardona decided to pursue a career in poetry because, as she says, "it is for me the essentiality, the synthesis of truth that remains hidden in eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palma De Mallorca
Palma (; ; also known as ''Palma de Mallorca'', officially between 1983–88, 2006–08, and 2012–16) is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma. The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. , Palma de Mallorca Airport, Palma Airport serves over 29 million passengers per year. History Palma was founded as a Ancient Rome, Roman camp upon the remains of a Talaiotic settlement. The city was subjected to several Vandal raids during the fall of the Western Roman Empire, then reconquered by the Byzantine Empire, then colonised by the Moors (who called it ''Medina Mayurqa'') and, in the 13th century, by James I of Aragon. Roman period After the conquest of Mallorca, the city was loosely incorporated into the province of Hispania Tarraconensis, Tarraco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
