Maria Gràcia Bassa i Rocas

{{Short description|Spanish writer, folklorist and professor (1883–1961)}}

Maria Gràcia Bassa i Rocas (1883 in Llofriu – 1961 in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish folklorist, poet, and journalist.{{Cite web |last=Bacardi i Tomas |first=Montserrat |date=May 29, 2017 |title=Gràcia Bassa, poeta, periodista i traductora |trans-title=Gràcia Bassa, poet, journalist and translator |url=https://www.palafrugell.cat/serveis-ciutadania/gracia-bassa-poeta-periodista-i-traductora |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Ajuntament de Palafrugell |publisher=Institut de Mitjans de Comunicació Pública de Palafrugell. Associació Cultural Pou d'en Bonet |language=ca-es}}{{Cite web |title=Maria Gràcia Bassa |url=https://www.enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/maria-gracia-bassa |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana}}

Life

The daughter of Joan Bassa i Bosch and Irene Rocas i Romaguera, she researched language and folklore, with her mother.{{Cite book |last1=Oriol |first1=Carme |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ttC-DwAAQBAJ&dq=Maria+Gr%C3%A0cia+Bassa&pg=PA36 |title=A History of Catalan Folk Literature |last2=Samper |first2=Emili |date=2019-12-11 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |isbn=978-90-272-6185-4 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=autors |first=Diversos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4UfKDwAAQBAJ&dq=Maria+Gr%C3%A0cia+Bassa&pg=PA83 |title=Història de la literatura popular catalana |date=2017-12-28 |publisher=Publicacions Universitat Rovira I Virgili |isbn=978-84-8424-668-8 |pages=83–84 |language=ca |trans-title=History of popular Catalán literature}} She was a teacher in Llofriu.{{Cite web |last=Bruguera |first=Jordi |date=February 27, 2008 |title=Nomenclàtor de carrers {{!}} Maria Gràcia Bassa Rocas, Carrer de |trans-title=Nomenclature of streets {{!}} Maria Gràcia Bassa Rocas, Carrer de |url=https://www.palafrugell.cat/la-ciutat/maria-gracia-bassa-rocas-carrer-de |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=Ajuntament de Palafrugell |language=ca-es}}

In 1907, she married Joan Llorens i Carreras, in Pineda de Mar. They moved to Argentina, and Maria continued to take an interest in and promotion of Catalan culture and Catalan language.{{Cite web |last=Grau i Ferrando |first=Dolors |date=January 1999 |title=De Llofríu a Buenos Aires. La presencia empordanesa a América |trans-title=From Llofriu to Buenos Aires. Empordá's presence in America |url=http://www.revistadegirona.cat/recursos/1999/0192_036.pdf |website=Revista de Girona |pages=37–42}}{{Cite book |last=Mercadal |first=Neus Real |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaJfoNoLhgMC&dq=Maria+Gr%C3%A0cia+Bassa&pg=PA117 |title=Dona i literatura a la Catalunya de preguerra |date=2006 |publisher=L'Abadia de Montserrat |isbn=978-84-8415-779-3 |language=ca}} Her son Joan Llorens i Bassa (1908-1976) was also active in the Catalan literary community in Argentina.

She contributed to La Chronique de Palafrugell and to Feminal, the feminist magazine published in Barcelona.{{Cite journal |last=Vergés |first=Montserrat Palau |date=2012 |title=Les aportacions al feminisme de les folkloristes Maria Gràcia Bassa i Maria Baldó |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6320985 |journal=La recerca folklòrica: Persones i institucions, 2012, ISBN 978-84-7784-615-4, pág. 13 |publisher=Instituto Alicantino de Cultura Juan Gil-Albert |pages=13 |isbn=978-84-7784-615-4}}{{Cite journal |last=Carrero |first=Marcela Isabel Lucci |date=2022-07-26 |title=La voz del catalanismo femenino porteño durante la primera década del franquismo. Gràcia Bassa de Llorens en la revista Ressorgiment. 1939-1949 |url=https://pasadoymemoria.ua.es/article/view/22168 |journal=Pasado y Memoria |language=es |issue=25 |pages=63–86 |doi=10.14198/PASADO2022.25.03 |s2cid=251111503 |issn=2386-4745|hdl=10256/21850 |hdl-access=free }} She participated in the Floral Games before her death in 1961 in Buenos Aires.