Rosalia Prieto

Rosalia Prieto (1902-1997) was a Brunanter poet of Spanish origin. Prieto was a somewhat controversial writer due to her material in the 1930s and 1940s and later a resistance member in Brunant.

Biography
Rosalia Prieto was born to a Catalan family in Tarragona. She studied literature in Barcelona in the 1920s. Prieto was married to Sculptor Salvador Carrisa (1893-1937). She was a very modern writer, as seen in her work and would later join the communist movement in the 1930s. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, she and her husband were briefly imprisoned in Zaragoza. She was released but her husband died or was killed in prison. In 1937, she and her young daughter fled Spain and crossed over to France, but in 1939, following the outbreak of war against Germany, they left for Brunant.