SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands will dedicate the next edition of the Canary Islands Day of Letters to Félix Francisco Casanova, one of the most unique voices of poetry and narrative on the islands. The designation of the palmero poet has had the unanimous support of the literary, cultural and library community of the Canary Islands.
The Governing Council has given its approval this Thursday to the proposal of the Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports to focus on the dissemination of his work over the next year.
Every year, since 2006, the Autonomous Government has paid homage to a relevant figure in Canarian literature through the Canary Islands Day of Letters, to whom it dedicates an extensive program of activities for twelve months to help spread the word about his work and his literary significance. This agenda begins with the institutional act that is celebrated every February 21, the day on which the death of José de Viera y Clavijo is commemorated in 1813. In recent editions, great names such as Josefina de la Torre, Natalia Sosa, Ayala and Dolores Campos-Herrero.
Félix Francisco Casanova (Santa Cruz de La Palma, 1956-Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1976) was the son of the poet and doctor Félix Casanova de Ayala. In the sixties, the family moved their residence to Tenerife and at that time his artistic concerns began to be perceived. He was very passionate about music and poetry came with it, as his first poems were written in English as rock lyrics.
Other passions of Casanova were cinema, comics or photography. His creative activity intensified in the early years of the seventies. In fact, he began by disclosing in the press several texts that he had written together with his friend Ángel Mollá, under the name of Equipo Hovno. Both would come to sign a manifesto.
In 1973, at the age of seventeen, he won the main prize for poetry in the Canary Islands, the Julio Tovar, with his book The greenhouse. In 1974 she won the Pérez Armas for novel with the work reissued by Demipage, El don de Vorace. A month before his death, he won the Matías Real Prize, organized by the newspaper La Tarde, with the collection of poems A suitcase full of leaves.
Félix Francisco is also the author of the diary I would have or would have loved, written in 1974 and published in 1983. After his death, at the age of nineteen, his father was in charge of publishing The Forgotten Memory (1980), which brings together most of the Casanova’s poems; in addition to several works created together, among which Neck of the Bottle (1976) stands out.
