Jesús Moncada i Estruga was a narrator and translator. His work is a re-creation, somewhere between realism and fantasy, of the mythical past of the old town of Mequinenza -now submerged beneath the waters of the river Ebro-.
Els Guiamets is a municipality in the comarca of the Priorat in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the south of the comarca. A local road links the village to the N-420 road between Falset and Móra la Nova. The Guiamets reservoir is on an affluent of the Siurana (Tarragona).
The Catalonia Offensive was part of the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist Army started the offensive on 23 December 1938 and rapidly conquered Republican-held Catalonia with Barcelona. Barcelona was captured on 26 January 1939. The Republican government headed for the French border. Thousands of people fleeing the Nationalists also crossed the frontier in the following month, to be placed in internment camps. Franco closed the border with France by 10 February 1939.
Rosa Regàs is a Spanish writer and novelist. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Premio Nadal.
Montserrat Abelló i Soler was a Catalan poet and translator. During the Spanish Civil War, she lived in exile in France, England and Chile.
Montserrat Roig i Fransitorra was a Catalan writer of novels, short stories and articles.
Teresa Claramunt (1862–1931) was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist. She was a textile employee and founded an anarchist group in Sabadell influenced by Fernando Tarrida de Mármol, which participated in a strike of seven weeks of 1883 where was claimed a dayjob of 10 hours a day. On October 1884 was one of the founders of the workers Section variant of anarcho-collectivists in Sabadell.
Nada, which means "nothing" in Spanish, is the first novel of Spanish author Carmen Laforet, published in 1945.
Elizabeth Trebelle Morgan, also called Betty Morgan and later Betty Morgan Popescu, was a Welsh writer, translator, scholar and Liberal Party politician. She was notably the youngest woman candidate in the 1929 General Election.
Ana María Martínez Sagi was a SPANISH poet, trade unionist, journalist, feminist and athlete. She was national champion in the javelin and became the first female director of a Spanish football club. During the Spanish Civil War she followed the Durruti Column as a journalist and was then exiled to France, living in different places. During World War II she joined the French Resistance and evaded capture by the Gestapo. Afterwards she worked for the Aga Khan and then moved to the United States where she taught at the University of Illinois. After the death of Francisco Franco, she returned to Catalonia where lived in obscurity near to Barcelona.
Aurora Bertrana i Salazar was a Catalan cellist and writer, notable for her exotic stories and novels. She lived in Tahiti, Morocco, Switzerland, and France. Bertrana's republished memoires combining Memòries fins al 1935 (1973) and Memòries del 1935 al retorn a Catalunya (1975) provide a detailed account of her life.
Joan Sales i Vallès (1912-1983) was a Catalan writer, translator and publisher, who promoted Catalan culture under the Franco dictatorship. His best-known novel and major testament is Uncertain Glory.
Frida Knight (1910–1996) was an English communist activist and author.
Neus Català i Pallejà was a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War and was a survivor of the concentration camp of Ravensbrück. She is one of many Catalans who survived internment in the Nazi concentration camp system.
Teresa Pàmies i Bertran was a Spanish Catalan-language writer.
Lesbians in the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War period were doubly discriminated against, as a result of their gender and sexual practices. Prior to the Second Republic, lesbians in Spain were largely ignored, eclipsed by gay men. They faced discrimination as they challenged definitions around what it meant to be a woman. While homosexuality was not condemned by law, it was possible for lesbians to face more severe punishment when charged with violation of morals because of their sexual orientation.
Patience Darton was a British nurse and political activist active during the Spanish Civil War.
Kate Mangan was a British artist, actress and journalist.
Nancy Joan Johnstone was an English writer, hotelier and humanitarian. Her first husband was Archie Johnstone, a journalist who defected to the Soviet Union.
The Clapton Press is an independent publisher based in London E5, established in 2018.
