Pino Ojeda

Pino Ojeda Quevedo was born in El Palmar de Teror in 1916 and died in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2002. Institutional sources present her as a writer and visual artist, with work in poetry, fiction, theatre and painting.

She published Niebla de sueño in 1947 and founded Alisio. Hojas de poesía in 1952. The Biblioteca de Canarias records that she received the first accessit of the Adonais Prize in 1953 for Como el fruto del árbol and that her novel Con el paraíso al fondo was a finalist for the Nadal Prize in 1954.

In 1958 she opened Galería Arte in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, described by the sources as a pioneering venue for artistic promotion on the islands. Her legacy brings together writing, visual creation and cultural mediation in the post-war Canary Islands.