Tina Suárez Rojas

Tina Suárez was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Her early relationship with poetry was linked to orality and listening to children's poems. She later worked as a teacher of Spanish Language and Literature while building a body of poetry and essays.

Her first book, Huellas de Gorgona, received the Premio Tomás Morales in 1996. It was followed by the Premio Ciudad de Las Palmas for Pronóstico reservado, the Gabriel Celaya International Prize for Una mujer anda suelta, the Carmen Conde Prize for El principio activo de la oblicuidad and the Odón Betanzos Prize for Los ponientes. Her texts have appeared in national and international anthologies and have been translated into Italian and Portuguese, among other languages.

The Biblioteca de Canarias places her in the poetry of the 1990s and in the so-called Última Generación del Milenio. Her work critically explores literary topics, female myths and conventions of sentimentality, combining humour, irony and rigorous attention to language. Later books such as De cotidianitud, Rarefacta and Jacintos y galletas extend a career of more than a dozen titles.