– CABILDO DE TENERIFE
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 14 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife Bookshop will host the talk, ‘Las islas van mar afuera. The Forgotten Novel of Alfonso García-Ramos’, this Monday at 18:30. The session will be led by researcher Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez, who is responsible for the recovery and publication of this previously unpublished work by the Tenerife writer, who was honoured on the Day of Canarian Letters in 2026.
Martín De la Nuez, a Doctor in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and a professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary (Virginia, USA), has played a “decisive” role in bringing this work to light. The novel had been preserved by García-Ramos’s family for decades without being published, according to a press release from the Cabildo de Tenerife.
A finalist for the Benito Pérez Armas Prize in 1957, the work remained unpublished despite generating interest from contemporary critics.
Thanks to Martín de la Nuez’s research, archival recovery, and editing, the novel was finally published in 2024, becoming part of the literary corpus of one of the most significant authors of 20th-century Canarian literature.
RECOVERY PROCESS
During the talk, presented by Nilo Palenzuela, a writer and professor of Spanish Literature at the University of La Laguna, Martín De la Nuez will share the details of this recovery process and the importance of a work that, as noted, helps to better understand the literary evolution of Alfonso García-Ramos.
Additionally, ‘Las islas van mar afuera’ already addresses several issues that would later shape the author’s work, such as Canarian emigration to America, island identity, and reflections on insular conditions.
The publication of this novel marked the first release from Ediciones Tamaimo concerning the Tenerife author. To conclude this year of celebrations dedicated to García-Ramos, a critical and annotated edition of *Tristeza sobre un caballo blanco* will be published at the end of 2026, also overseen by Professor Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez.
