Literary biographies, places, works, sources and links with already published articles.
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Canon of Santa Ana and cultural organiser in Las Palmas, associated with esdrújulo verse and works such as Templo militante.
A wide-ranging eighteenth-century author, best known for Noticias de la Historia General de las Islas Canarias and Diccionario de Historia Natural.
Born in Puerto de la Cruz, he owes his literary reputation chiefly to Fábulas literarias, published in 1782.
Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; his Episodios Nacionales form a narrative fresco of nineteenth-century Spain.
Pseudonym of Rafael Romero Quesada; he cultivated poetry, theatre, fiction and chronicle, including El lino de los sueños.
Gran Canarian poet whose work is read as an expression of intimism and public silence.
A figure of Canarian literary renewal; Lancelot, 28º-7º turns Lanzarote into material for island experimentation.
A figure of twentieth-century Canarian poetry; he was among the first Archipiélago de las Letras authors and his work circulates in teaching materials.
A leading interwar Canarian literary intellectual and a central diffuser of surrealist ideas.
His path runs from Campanario de la primavera to Romanticismo y cuenta nueva and Enigma del invitado, in dialogue with avant-garde and surrealism.
A postwar Canarian writer and artist, founder of Alisio. Hojas de poesía and author of Como fruto en el árbol.
Her poetic career began in 1973 and includes the founding of Ediciones La Palma and novels engaging memory, island and oral tradition.
Author of poetry, essays and translations, and driving force behind the journal Syntaxis, published in Tenerife from 1983 to 1993.
Author of children’s and young adult fiction that weaves everyday speech, elders’ voices and popular sayings into her stories.
