Ana María Martínez Sagi

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

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.

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

When World War II broke out, she participated in the French Resistance and in 1942 was nearly captured by the Gestapo when they raided her apartment and she left through a window.

[1] Selling handkerchiefs on the streets of Cannes she met the wife of the Aga Khan and worked for her as an interior designer, before moving to Provence.