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» Deia is also a Basque newspaper, mostly in Spanish with some pages in Basque.
Deià is a small coastal village in the northern ridge of the
Spanish island of
Majorca. It is located about 10
miles north of
Valldemossa, and is mainly famous for its literary and musical inhabitants.
Its idyllic landscapes of orange and olive groves on steep cliffs overlooking the
Mediterranean served as refuge for English and American expatriates after the
First World War. English poet, novelist and scholar
Robert Graves was one of the first foreigners to settle in the village, where he collaborated with
Laura Riding, with whom he set up the
Seizin Press. Graves returned after the war and remained in Deià until his death, using the town as the setting for many of his stories, including the historical novel
Hercules my Shipmate.
Anaïs Nin visited the village in the
1920s, and wrote a short story set on the village's beach, and the Spanish writer
Carmen Naranjo recently wrote a short story about that one. The town is also the unnamed setting of Uruguayan novelist
Cristina Peri Rossi's "
The Ship of Fools" (La nave de los locos). Nicaraguan poet and novelist
Claribel Alegría is also one of the current residents of the town.
In recent decades, the stars of literature have been eclipsed by the stars of rock and roll.
Virgin Records mogul
Richard Branson has a luxury residence in the town and his label's stars have often visited the village and sometimes jammed at the local bar 'Sa Fonda'. Deià was home to several
Canterbury scene musicians over the years including
Kevin Ayers,
Robert Wyatt and
Daevid Allen.
Mick Jagger, guitarist
Mark Knopfler and European music icon
Mike Oldfield played there often in the late
1980s; and
Caroline Corr.
The small village has today around 20 restaurants and bars which are popular amongst visitors from all over the world.
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