Christie also visited the island in the early 20th century and stayed in Palma and Port de Pollença. She would later write the book Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories, a collection of short stories, of which the first one takes place in Port de Pollença, starring Mr Parker Pyne.
Joan Miró had close ties to the island throughout his entire life. He settled permanently in Majorca in 1954, and he had already married Pilar Juncosa in Palma, in 1929. Nowadays, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Majorca has an important collection of his works.
The contemporary painter Miquel Barceló was born in Majorca, and has produced a number of works there, for instance, the sculptures in the cathedral la Seu.
Notable Majorcans
Two of the most famous Majorcans are the writer and philosopher, logician and friar Ramon Llull, who wrote the first major work of Catalan Literature; and Junípero Serra, the Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California.
Others are Abraham Cresques, a 14th-century Jewish cartographer of the Majorcan cartographic schoolfrom Palma. Cresques is credited with the authorship of the famous Catalan Atlas. From the 19th century, the military commander Joaquín Jovellar y Soler and two-time Spanish Prime Minister Antonio Maura.
Celebrity sportsmen include basketball player Rudy Fernández, as well as former world no. 1 tennis player Rafael Nadal and Carlos Moyá. Rafael Nadal's uncle is the former Spanish international footballer,Miguel Ángel Nadal. In 2006, Majorcan Jorge Lorenzo won the world 250cc Grand Prix motorcycle title and, most importantly, the 2010 and 2012 MotoGP World Championships.
Painters José María Sicilia and Astrid Colomar were born in Mallorca as well. Maria del Mar Bonet and her brother Joan Ramon Bonet, are both members of the group of Mallorcan language singers known as Els Setze Jutges in the 1960s. The contemporary pop
