[2][3] Descendant of Croatian immigrants both on the paternal and maternal sides, she was the daughter of Mateo Franulic Jerkovic and Zorka Zlatar Janovic.
In 1945 she was the director of Radio Nuevo Mundo and, later, a reporter for the "Nacional", "Cooperativa", "Agricultura" and "Minería" stations.
She interviewed various figures of her time, such as Jean Paul Sartre, Marshal Tito, Juan Domingo Perón, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nicolás Guillén, Fidel Castro, Anastasio Somoza, Gabriela Mistral, Emil Ludwig, André Malraux, and Simone de Beauvoir.
[4] The most important characteristic of her work as a journalist was that her articles were aimed at capturing the opinions of these characters, raising the respective criticisms of those, in order to analyze the social and political course of the moment, beyond just highlighting the trajectory, contributions and merits of those he interviewed.
Under an enormous stone head sculpted by the artist Lily Garafulic, there is a tombstone that contains a phrase from the speech that Pablo Neruda wrote for his great friend: "Eras presencia de mujeres y lección para un millón de hombres" (You were a presence for women and a lesson for a million men).