Tomás Morales

Tomás Morales Castellano was born in Moya on 10 October 1884. He studied medicine in Cádiz and Madrid, worked as a doctor in Agaete and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and died in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 15 August 1921.

His literary career is linked to Canarian modernism and to early twentieth-century poetic circles in Gran Canaria, with generational and personal ties to authors such as Saulo Torón. He published Poemas de la gloria, del amor y del mar in 1908 and prepared Las Rosas de Hércules, a work in which the sea, classical mythology and modernist sensibility became central expressive axes.

The Casa-Museo Tomás Morales records that Book II of Las Rosas de Hércules was printed at the end of 1919 and circulated in 1920, while Book I appeared posthumously in 1922. The institution preserves his memory in Moya and gives its name to a poetry prize linked to his legacy.