Roser Rosés Senabre was born in Barcelona in 1926. In 1938 her parents sent her to the USSR to shield her from the dangers of the Civil War. There, however, she suffered the ravages of World War II and, although unable to return home, she miraculously survived. In 1947, she was able to return to Barcelona via Mexico and with false papers. In her own family she came face to face with the poverty and misery of the defeated in the post-war period.
She has taught Catalan and Russian classes, worked as a proofreader and collaborated with the Friends of UNESCO Club. Currently, at the age of ninety, she volunteers at the Museum of the History of Catalonia, where she is a member of the Council of Elders and tells students of various ages about her experiences due to wars. She has published Trenes tallades (2006), the story of her life journey in Russia, which has been a great success.
LiberPress Camins Award 2017
Roser Rosés Senabre received the 2017 LiberPress Camins Award for a long life in which she has trodden many paths from an early age, some of great difficulty. She showed great responsibility and maturity in her childhood and adolescence; she went through the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the worst years of the Franco regime without becoming discouraged, until she found freedom again, along with the rest of us. Now, older, wiser and more tolerant, she has opened up the paths of memory to other children and teenagers, who are perhaps more fortunate.