Eva Forest

Eva Forest
Forest in 1951
Born	(1928-04-06)6 April 1928 Barcelona, Spain
Died	19 May 2007(2007-05-19) (aged 79) Hondarribia, Spain
Pen name	Julen Agirre
Genre	Political literature
Spouse	Alfonso Sastre ​ (m. 1955)​
Member of the Senate of Spain
In office 13 May 1992 – 13 April 1993
Constituency	Gipuzkoa
Personal details
Political party	Herri Batasuna

Genoveva Forest Tarrat ((1928-04-06)6 April 1928 – (2007-05-19)19 May 2007) was a Spanish far-left activist, writer and prisoner. Born into an anarchist family in Barcelona, she studied medicine in Madrid. During the 1970s, she supported the Basque separatist group ETA in their resistance to the government of dictator Francisco Franco. From 1974 to 1977, she was imprisoned for complicity in the Cafetería Rolando bombing (1974), which killed 13 people in Madrid. After Spain's transition to democracy, she served a term as a senator from 1992 until 1993. The wife of the Spanish writer Alfonso Sastre, she died in May 2007.

Forest's writings were political in nature. Her best known books include Operación Ogro: Cómo y por qué ejecutamos a Carrero Blanco (1974), an account of the assassination of the Spanish Prime Minister admiral-general Luis Carrero Blanco, and Testimonios de lucha y resistencia (1976), a testimony to the situation of political prisoners and the use of torture. Her first narrative text, Onintze en el país de la democracia (1985), is a fictional account of political violence under a democratic regime.