Sofía Pérez Casanova


Category: Writer
Birth Date: 30th September 1861 (†16th January 1953)
Birth Place: Almeiras-Culleredo (A Coruña)
 Curriculum

When she was twelve she moved to Madrid with her family in order to receive a good education. She moved among literary circles and discovered her vocation for literature. In 1887 she married the Pole Professor and Philosopher Vicente Lutoslawsky and travelled to Poland. The King Alfonso XIII bestowed on her the Great Charity Cross for having helped as a nurse at the station hospital in Varsovia at the beginning of the World War. When the Galician Academy was founded in 1906 she was nominated as a member.

 Work & Activities

She often took part in newspapers and magazines such as El Debate, La Época, El Heraldo de Madrid, El Liberal, El Mundo o El Imparcial and in the Pole press Swiat and Gaceta Polska. Her literary production was also very important. Some of her most important books are: Poesías (Madrid, 1886), El Doctor Wolski. Páginas de Polonia y Rusia (Madrid 1894), Fugaces (A Coruña, 1897), Sobre el Volga helado (Madrid, 1903), Barteck, el vencedor (Madrid, 1903), Lo eterno (Madrid, 1907), Más que amor (Madrid, 1908), Quo vadis? (Madrid, 1908), Una nihilista (1909), Princesa del amor hermoso (Madrid, 1909), El cancionero de la dicha (Madrid, 1911), El pecado (Madrid, 1911), Exóticas (Madrid, 1912), La madeja (Madrid, 1913), De la guerra. Crónicas de Polonia y Rusia (Madrid, 1916), De la Revolución rusa en 1917 (Madrid, 1918), Impresiones de una mujer en el frente oriental de la Guerra Europea (Madrid, 1919), La Revolución bolchevista. Diario de un testigo (Madrid, 1920), De Rusia. Amores y confidencias (Madrid, 1927), Aventuras de la una muñeca española en Rusia (1928), En la corte de los Zares. Del principio y fin de un imperio (Madrid, 2ª edición, 1929), Algo de poesía (Madrid, 1929), Como en la vida (Madrid, 1931), Las catacumbas de la Rusia roja (Madrid, 1933), El martirio de Polonia (Madrid, 1946). She also wrote short stories such as Triunfo de amor (Madrid, 1919), Episodio de guerra (Madrid, 1921), Princesa rusa (Madrid, 1922), Valor y miedo (Madrid, 1922), Kola, El bandido (Madrid, 1923), El dolor de reinar (Madrid, 1925).