Correos issues a new stamp within the series LITERATURA to a writer Luisa Carnés, the stamp is a more classic and emblematic photograph coloured by Alex Puyol. In addition, this issue has a premium sheet and a card.
(Madrid, 1905-Mexico D.F., 1964) was a Spanish novelist and journalist, an invisible author of the Generation of 1927. She was born into a working-class family in the Madrid neighbourhood of Las Letras. At the age of eleven she began working in a milliner's workshop and in 1928 saw the publication of her first work, Peregrinos de calvario (Pilgrims of Calvary), a collection of short stories. From her experiences in her new job as a waitress in a tea room came Tea Rooms. Working Women (1934), which was warmly received by critics, who praised its innovative character and narrative force. Self-taught, Luisa Carnés was considered "the most important storyteller of the Generation of 1927". The novel is set in the back room of a famous Madrid tearoom, with the intention that the atmosphere invades the entire space and surrounds the viewer, immersing him or her completely in the atmosphere of the salon. The youth, the joy, the energy of the characters contrasts, at times, with their sadness, with unforeseen misfortune, with dreams to be fulfilled and also with those that will never be fulfilled. In short, a text that retains an absolute relevance and in which we can see ourselves reflected.
Luisa Carnés showed a growing interest in social issues, which she reflected in her work, which was written in defence of women and workers' causes.
After the Spanish Civil War she went into exile in Mexico, where she died prematurely in the most complete oblivion in the history of Spanish literature. Luisa Carnés went into exile with nothing but a leather wallet containing, among other things, her most precious possession, her short stories. Eighty years later, they will finally see the light of day in the anthology Thirteen Stories (1931-1963).
