Núria Pi-Sunyer i Cuberta (Barcelona, 1923 - 2011) was one of the Catalans who wrote in exile during the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship.

Daughter of the politician Carles Pi i Sunyer, she lived in several countries, among them France, England, the United States, and Venezuela, and described her experiences in her the book L’exili manllevat (2006), as well as working with her father on his war memoir, which he also wrote from exile. She graduated in English Literature in New York, after which she worked in Venezuela as a university lecturer in Language and Literature.

She did not return to Catalonia until 1974, when she finally came back with her husband, the doctor and physiologist Rossend Carrasco i Formiguera, after whom the Rossend Carrasco i Formiguera Foundation was named. Núria Pi-Sunyer was president of the board of this clinic specialising in treatment of diabetes and, together with her brother Oriol and sister Carolina, was also on the board of the Carles Pi i Sunyer Foundation. She remained a member of the political party Esquerra Republicana which she joined in 1946.

She was an honorary member of the Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Catalan Language Writers – AELC).

Web page: Marta Barberan for AELC.
Cover photograph: From the author’s book L’exili manllevat.
Translation: Julie Wark.