Eva Forest

Eva Forest (1928-2007) was an activist, writer, politician, publisher, and psychiatrist. Born to anarchist parents in Barcelona, she studied medicine in Madrid. After living in exile in Paris, Forest returned to Francoist Spain in 1962, where she was arrested and imprisoned for organizing women for the Asturias miners' strike. Forest spent time in Cuba, forming solidarity groups and writing on the socialist cause. In the 1970s, her militant commitment to the Basque people and their cause solidified After her three-year-long imprisonment in Yeserías, she, along with her husband, Alfonso Sastre, and their three children, moved to Hondarribia in Basque Country, where they founded the publishing house Hiru. The author of many books, it wasn't until 2007, the year she died, that Una Extraña Aventura was published.