Llorenç Villalonga i Pons

Llorenç Villalonga i Pons (Palma de Mallorca, March 1, 1897 – January 27, 1980) was a Balearic writer and psychiatrist.

[1] Villalonga began his career as a writer publishing his first book, entitled Mort de Dama, which gained a lot of controversy for representing the decline of the rural aristocracy in the Balearic Islands during the 1920s.

After the Nationalist's side success in gaining control of Majorca at the start of the Spanish Civil War, he joined the Spanish Falange and adopted anti-Catalan positions by contributing in the destruction of all Catalan cultural associations in Majorca.

[2] Some of his novels are L'àngel rebel (1961), Desenllaç a Montlleó (1963), Lulú regina (1970), El misantrop (1972) and Un estiu a Mallorca (1975).

[3] After the end of the war, he changed his political views and progressively joined the Catalan cultural resistance movement.