Aurora Bertrana, daughter of the writer and painter Prudenci Bertrana, began her career as a musician, forming part of the first female jazz trio in Europe. She lived in Switzerland and Polynesia and traveled alone through Morocco. During the 1930s she became involved in leftist and feminist politics and shortly after, exiled in France, she experienced the ravages of World War II.
For Bertrana, literature and life were inextricable. She entered the literary world with travel books and she bid it farewell with two volumes of memoirs. The novels and stories she wrote—often about adventures, like Stevenson and Conrad—always were closely tied to her life. In a passionate, poetic voice, Bertrana bore witness to her times from a new perspective: that of an independent woman who lived her life unapologetically
«Bertrana deserved to be named our finest travel writer, and she undoubtedly would have, had she been French or English.»
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