Carme Karr Alfonsetti

She frequently signed articles with the pseudonym Joana Romeu. She also wrote for Diario de Barcelona, La Veu de Catalunya, Or y Grana,(1906–1907, where she promoted Catalan solidarity), Ofrena (1916–17), La Mainada (1922–23), La Actualidad, Día Gráfico and Las Provincias of Valencia, where she sometimes used the pseudonym Xènia in reference to the name Xènius used by Eugenio d'Ors, with whom she argued in Joventut.

• Name — Carmen Karr • Born — 13 March 1865 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Died — 29 December 1943 • Place of death — Barcelona, Spain • Occupation — Writer, composer

Carme Karr's father was a French engineer and diplomat in Catalunya and her mother, who was Italian, died when Karr was an infant. She was the niece of the French novelist Alphonse Karr. She was raised between Barcelona and Perpignan at schools run by the Dominican order in Barcelona and Figueres. She married Josep Maria de Lasarte i de Janer in 1890 and they had four children. She is buried in the Montjuïc Cemetery in Barcelona. Though born in a foreign family, Karr was fully integrated in Catalan cultural life. She worked as a journalist, beginning with the magazine L’Avenç and later in Joventut. Using the pseudonym Xènia she began a literary argument with Eugeni d’Ors, who used the pseudonym Xènius in La Veu de Catalunya. She wrote articles in Spanish and Catalan under her own name in Diario de Barcelona, El Día Gràfico and in Las Provincias.

Carme Karr Alfonsetti was recorded at birth as Carme Karr i Alfonsetti. She also worked under the names Joana Romeu and Xènia. The authorities additionally record the headings Carmen Karr i Alfonsetti, Carmen D’Alaforetto, Joana Romeu and Carme Karr i Alfonsetti. Her recorded languages were Spanish and Catalan. She married Josep Maria de Lasarte i de Janer. One child is recorded: Joan de Lasarte i Karr. Other recorded relations include Josep Maria Ainaud de Lasarte, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Henri Karr and Manuel Ainaud Sánchez.

Carme Karr Alfonsetti is recorded with the occupation musicologist. Recorded as composer, translator, writer, journalist and musicologist.