María Luz Morales

María Luz Morales Godoy (1890 in La Coruña – 1980 in Barcelona) was a pioneering Spanish cultural journalist and writer of the 20th century.

She was the first woman in Spain to direct a national newspaper, La Vanguardia, which she managed during the period of 1936 and 1937 at the beginning of the Guerra Civil Española.

In 1939, she was detained for 40 days and was professionally unable to work because of Francoism. With the retorno de la democracia, she continued her work, collaborating with Diario de Barcelona until her death, at the age of 91. She was instrumental in the incorporation of women for journalistic and literary activity in España del siglo XX.

Awards and honours 1956 - Orden de las Palmas Académicas 1963 - Premio Nacional de Teatro (1962) 1971 - Lazo de Isabel la Católica

Selected works

Parientes y trastos viejos (inédita) Trovas de otros tiempos, 1928 Libros, mujeres y niños, 1928 Las románticas, 1930 Edison, 1934 Romance de media noche (with Elisabeth Mulder), 1935 Julio César, 1936 Madame Curie, 1936 Alejandro Magno, 1936 Alguien a quien conocí, 1937 Tres historias de amor en la Revolución francesa, 1942 María Antonieta, 1943 El mundo de las hormigas, 1948 El Cine: historia ilustrada del séptimo arte, 1950 Hazañas del Cid, 1951. , Enciclopedia del hogar, 1952 Rosalinda en la ventana, 1954 Balcón al Atlántico: (otra novela sin héroe), 1955 Balcón al Mediterráneo, 1955 Historias del décimo círculo, 1962 Libro de oro de la poesía en lengua castellana, 1970