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Character
Aurora Bertrana i Salazar
Girona 29-10-1892
‖ Berga 03-09-1974
Period of activity: From 1926 until 1974
Geographical classification:
Europe > Spain
Socio-cultural movements
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Feminism
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Literary and cultural movements since the end of the 19th century > Literature from the first third of the 20th century
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Literary and cultural movements since the end of the 19th century > Post-war literature
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Literary and cultural movements since the end of the 19th century > Literature since the last third of the 20th century
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Socio-political movements > Republicanism
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Socio-political movements > Labor movement
Late modern period / Contemporary period > Musical movements since the end of the 19th century > Popular music > Jazz
Groups by dedication
Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
Activists > Feminists (activists)
Musicians > Instrumentalists
Writers > Story writers
Writers > Essayists
Writers > Orators
Writers > Biographers
Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
Context of feminine creation
With a solid musical training and a natural talent, she made a living as a jazz woman and had a female-only jazz band; she lived for a while in the house of feminist writer and journalist Carmen Karr; she collaborated as an editor in different journalistic media; she travelled through Europe and Polynesia. She belongs to a group of writers who formed the modern period of Catalan literature during the Spanish Second Republic, such as Irene Polo, Rosa Leveroni, Rosa Maria Arquimbau, Anna Mur, Carme Montoriol or Roser Matheu.
Review
Aurora Bertrana i Salazar was a writer and musician. She lived, studied and worked in France and Switzerland. Her stay in Polynesia was the beginning of her activity as a writer. The writer Carmen Karr transmitted to her the interest in feminism. In addition, during the Republic, she collaborated with Maria Pi de Folch, Carme Montoriol, Enriqueta Sèculi, Maria Carratalà, Isolina Viladot and Montserrat Graner, amongst others, to create the Universitat Obrera Femenina de Barcelona. She founded and presided the Lyceum Club in Barcelona, as Victoria Kent or María de Maeztu did in Madrid.
Justifications
Writer of journalistic articles, novels, memoirs...
Writer of books about exotic travels with a great publishing success (Polynesia, Morocco).
Original works, typology and topic-wise, translated to several languages and brought to the big screen.
Feminist activist and politician.
Founder and president of the Lyceum Club in Barcelona.
Editor of the communist magazine Companya.
Cellist and jazz interpreter.
Biography
She was born in Girona on the 29th of October 1892 and died in Berga on the 3rd of September 1974. Daughter of Prudenci Bertrana, she studied music and in 1923 she went to Switzerland to extend her musical training. There, she met the engineer Denys Chauffat, who she accompanied to Polynesia in a three-year stay (1926-1929). From there, she sent chronicles and reports to the magazine D’Ací d’Allà. Back in Catalonia, the trip had given her material for her first accounts, Paradisos oceànics (1930) and Peikea (1934), and for her first novel, L’illa perduda (1935), written jointly with her father.
Member of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (1932), during the Spanish Second Republic she marked herself as women's rights advocate in many collaborations in La Veu de Catalunya,Mirador, La Publicitat, L’Opinió and other publications, and participated in initiatives such as the creation of Front Únic Femení Esquerrista de Catalunya, the Universitat Obrera Femenina or the Lyceum Club in Catalonia, which she presided. After a trip in 1935, she published the impressions El Marroc sensual i fanàtic, centred in the situation of women in Morocco.
From 1936 to 1938 she was editor of the magazine Companya, linked to PSUC, The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. Exiled from Switzerland, she came back to Catalonia during the 40s and published the novels Camins de somni (1955) and La nimfa d’argila (1956), about childhoodness; Tres presoners (1957) and Entre dos silencis (1958), about World War Two; Fracàs (1966), about marriage, and Vent de grop (1967), about tourism. She is also the author of her father's biography Una vida (1965) and of Memòries fins a 1935 (Crítica Serra d’Or Award, 1974) and of posthumous publishing, Memòries del 1935 fins al retorn a Catalunya (1975).
The nature of travel literature means that the writer's texts can be used in all the year groups of ESO in order to work with descriptive texts (and grammatical categories such as nouns and adjectives), narrative texts (and the specific verbal tenses), and demonstrative texts.
In addition, due to the production dates, it is also adequate in 4th of ESO and 2nd of Bachillerato in Catalan language and literature.
The author can also be studied in music and in the subject of geography and history.
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