Lidia Falcón


Lidia Falcón O'Neill is a Spanish politician and writer. With a degree in Law, Dramatic Art, and Journalism, and PhD in Philosophy, she has stood out for her defense of feminism in Spain, especially during the Transition.
She was a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and suffered persecution and torture for her political ideas during the Franco dictatorship. In 1976 she created the Feminist Collective of Barcelona, the magazine Vindicación feminista, and the publishing house Ediciones de Feminismo. In 1977 she founded the Revolutionary Feminist Organization, from which the Feminist Party of Spain was created. Since 1979 she has directed the magazine Poder y libertad.

Biography

Lidia Falcón O'Neill was born on 13 December 1935 in Madrid, the daughter of the Peruvian César Falcón and the Spaniard , both writers and journalists, among other professions. Her parents met when her mother worked in the theater of her father, who was married with Irene Falcón, so his mother raised her alone. Both her maternal grandmother Regina de Lamo and her maternal aunt Carlota O'Neill were writers, so it was not considered unusual when she wrote her first play at age 12.
During the dictatorship Enriqueta O'Neill worked as a Francoist censor and would maintain a relationship with the Carlist and provincial press secretary – the highest office of censorship in Barcelona –, who would be Lidia Falcón's godfather. Falcón herself was imprisoned for her political demands, and her mother committed suicide on 17 November 1972 in Barcelona.

Works

Theater