Agustín Espinosa

Agustín Espinosa was born in Puerto de la Cruz in 1897 and died in Los Realejos in 1939. The Academia Canaria de la Lengua includes him in the Archipiélago de las Letras as an author linked to Canarian literary renewal and the avant-garde.

His work Lancelot, 28º-7º occupies a central place in his profile: it turns Lanzarote into a literary territory of experimentation, between travel writing, avant-garde vision and island invention. For that reason the profile also connects him with Lanzarote without making that relationship a birthplace.

The Boletín Oficial de Canarias posthumously recognised his contribution with the Gold Medal of the Canary Islands in 2008. That source supports his public relevance without relying on unattributed generic assessments.