Ada Martí Vall

Concepció Martí Vall (1914–1960), commonly known as Ada Martí, was a Catalan journalist and writer. As a student, she was first drawn towards the radical politics of anarchism, freethought and Catalan nationalism, which led her to participate in the Revolution of 1934 and the Spanish Revolution of 1936. She wrote for several anarchist periodicals during the Spanish Civil War, and established student groups to support the revolution. After the war, she fled to France, where she provided aid to Spanish refugees and came into contact with the French philosophy of existentialism. During the 1950s, she slipped into a depression, which was exacerbated by persistent insomnia and her inability to see her children, who she had placed in boarding schools. After a number of suicide attempts, she died of an overdose while attempting to treat her insomnia.