Writer, literary critic · 1949–Present
Writer, literary critic
Juan Manuel García Ramos is a writer, essayist and emeritus professor at the University of La Laguna, a member of the Academia Canaria de la Lengua and recipient of the 2006 Canary Islands Literature Prize.
Juan Manuel García Ramos was born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna in 1949. The Academia Canaria de la Lengua documents him as a writer, essayist, emeritus professor at the University of La Laguna and member of the Academy.
His fiction includes novels such as Bumerán, Malaquita, El inglés. Epílogo en Tombuctú, El guanche en Venecia, El zahorí del Valbanera and El delator. As an essayist and literary critic, he has worked on Latin American literature, Canarian authors and the Atlantic cultural relationship between the Canary Islands and America.
He also held university and public responsibilities. Institutional sources document him as vice-rector of the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands minister for Education, Culture and Sports, and chair of the Education and Culture Committee of the Canary Islands Parliament in the 1995-1999 and 2015-2019 terms. In 2006 he received the Canary Islands Literature Prize.
