Ana María Martínez Sagi

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Martínez and the second or maternal family name is Sagi.

Anna Maria Martínez Sagi (16 February 1907 – 2 January 2000) was a Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist,

University of Illinois. After the death of Francisco Franco
, she returned to Catalonia where she lived in obscurity near to Barcelona.

Early life

Martínez Sagi was born into a genteel family in Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1907. Her father worked in textiles and her mother encouraged her children to speak in Spanish and English, but not Catalan.[1] Martínez Sagi learned Catalan, the language she would later write in, from her nanny.[1]

Career

A sports enthusiast, Martinez Sagi was a national champion in

Emilio Sagi Liñán, played for FC Barcelona, and in 1934, she became a Director of FC Barcelona, the first woman to do so in Spanish football's history.[3]

Together with

Palau Reial de Pedralbes.[2][1] In addition to journalistic work, she also published several books of poetry. Her desperate and distressed style was similar to that of the Latin American poets Juana de Ibarbourou, Alfonsina Storni, and Gabriela Mistral. After her first book of poetry, Caminos, was published in 1930, Alberto Insúa compared Martínez Sagi to Rosalía de Castro.[4]
As a feminist, Martínez Sagi espoused ideas which came from France. She founded the first club of women workers of Barcelona, which worked to improve literacy among women.

In 1932, she fell in love the writer Elisabeth Mulder, but her feelings were not reciprocated and Martínez Sagi's family separated them.[1][2]

After the end of the civil war, Martínez Sagi was exiled to France, where she lived in Paris and then

University of Illinois.[5]

She returned to Catalonia in 1975, after the death of Francisco Franco, moving to Moià near Barcelona. She retired to private life in which her neighbours knew nothing about her past and regarded her as a stern old lady. The novelist Juan Manuel de Prada tracked her down and interviewed. Her posthumously published her writings in La voz sola (2019). She died in 2000.[1]

Selected works

  • Caminos
  • Laberinto de presencias: antología poética
  • Inquietud
  • La voz sola

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Beltran, Marcel (19 March 2021). "Periodista en el frente de guerra, poeta, atleta, feminista: ¿por qué nadie quiso acordarse de Anna Maria Martínez Sagi?". Publico. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Obiols, Isabel (18 March 2000). "De Prada novela la vida de la escritora y deportista catalana Ana M. Martínez Sagi". El Pais. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  3. ISBN 978-1-889135-07-6
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  4. ISBN 978-84-8472-880-1
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  5. ^ Lopez-Egea, Sergi (4 March 2011). "Atleta, escritora y antinazi Anna Maria Martínez Sagi fue en 1934 la primera mujer que se incorporó a la junta directiva del Barça El Camp Nou recordará mañana a una intelectual que defendió su condición de lesbiana". El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 April 2014.
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