SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 2. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Dolores Corbella Díaz, the first Canarian to be elected an academic of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), said this Wednesday that her appointment will give the Canary Islands a “voice and accent” because the archipelago is part of Spanish heritage.
Speaking to journalists after meeting with the President of Parliament, Gustavo Matos, she commented that the compendium of dictionaries on which she has worked for years as coordinator of the LexHis research group, among many other investigations and publications, allows her “to enter with pride to the Academy with the tasks carried out”.
In his opinion, “the compendium of dictionaries has led academics to think of me, after a job that has not been easy” and he has commented that he has “always” worked and has faced “everything” that has been thrown at him. ahead because his generation “has broken glass ceilings”.
Matos commented that “this election is a pride, an honor and an opportunity” and stressed that Corbella “represents many things: breaking the streak of more than eighty years without representation from the Canary Islands in the RAE, breaking glass ceilings or, as he says Dolores, made of concrete, to be an inspiring milestone for those who have dedicated their efforts to the humanities and to research and, also, to be a reference for many women and girls”.
The president recalled that the Autonomous Chamber, in this tenth Legislature and especially in this 2022, which marks forty years of parliamentarism in the Canary Islands, “wants to turn the institution into a meeting place for culture, science, research, in space where you can also contribute reflections on where you want to go”.
