Born in El Vendrell, Tarragona, to a poor family (his father was a shoemaker and his mother was a peasant), Nin moved to Barcelona shortly before World War I; he taught briefly in a secular anarchist school, but soon became a journalist and activist.
Anaïs Nin | Andrés Segovia | Andres Serrano | Andrés Ibáñez Province | Andres Bonifacio | San Andres, Manila | Andrés Bonifacio | Andrés Bello | NIN (magazine) | Andrés Iniesta | San Andrés | San Andres | NIN | Andrés de Urdaneta | Andrés de Santa Cruz | San Andrés Xecul | San Andrés (island) | Rodolfo Nin Novoa | José Andrés | Gonzalo Nin Novoa | Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina | Andrés Pastrana Arango | Andrés Pascal Allende | Andrés Mazali | Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete | Andrés García | Víctor Andrés Belaúnde | University of San Andrés | San Andrés, Santa Cruz de Tenerife | San Andrés Larráinzar |
Rather, it was suggested that he was among many sincere left-wingers (for example, Andrés Nin) killed by Soviet NKVD agents, led by Alexander Orlov, for their independent stance at the time.