High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Víctor Alba (1916 2003) was a Spanish politician, journalist, writer and university professor.Alba started his career as a political journalist at a young age. Affiliated with the Bloque Obrero y Campesino, he later worked for POUM. During the Spanish Civil War, he was the director of La Batalla. After the days of May 1937, he was arrested and jailed for six years in Valencia. After leaving prison, he went into exile in France where he worked alongside Albert Camus, and in 1947 moved to Mexico, where he made diverse publications. There in Mexico, he began a prolific literary production, in Spanish, French, Catalan and English and became director of the Social Training center.