Andrés Sánchez Robayna

Andrés Sánchez Robayna was born in Santa Brígida, Gran Canaria, in 1952. He earned a doctorate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and developed an academic career at the University of La Laguna, where he was professor of Spanish Literature from 1995.

His career brought together poetry, essays, translation and cultural editing. Institutional sources highlight his connection with journals such as Literradura and Syntaxis, his direction of the Literary Translation Workshop at the University of La Laguna and a poetic work recognised with the National Critics' Prize for La roca.

Documented distinctions include the 1982 National Translation Prize, the National Critics' Prize, the 2022 Prix Mallarmé and the Canary Islands Gold Medal awarded posthumously in 2025. He died on 11 March 2025.