Frederic Pujulà i Vallès

Frederic Pujulà i Vallès (Catalan pronunciation: [fɾəðəˈɾik puʒuˈlaj βəˈʎɛs]) (12 November 1877 – 14 February 1962) was a Spanish journalist, dramatist, and an Esperantist and contributor to the field of Esperanto literature.

It was during this period that, as a war correspondent of the daily paper "El Diluvio" he wrote a series of articles in Spanish about how life was in the trenches.

When he returned to Barcelona, he was appointed Staff editor of that newspaper, which was favourable to a federal system for Spain.

When in 1941 the fascist armies entered into Barcelona, they closed "El Diluvio", because Franco considered Federalism to be an offense.

Frederic Pujulà received the death penalty, which was two weeks later commuted to twenty years and one day.