Luisa Carnés (3 January 1905 – 12 March 1964) was a Spanish fiction writer and journalist.
Economic hardship in her family caused her to leave school at age eleven to become a hatmaker's apprentice.
An autodidact, she was an avid reader of Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Gorky, among others, and began to write in the evenings.
[3] Both were published by her employer, the Compañía Iberoamericana de Publicaciones (CIAP), where she did editorial work and where she met her first husband, the graphic artist Ramón Puyol (1907-1981).
[7] In 2019 a commemorative plaque was placed on the building where she was born, at Calle Lope de Vega, 31, Madrid.