Cabildo de Tenerife writer mourns the loss of Rafael Arozarena
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 30 sep (EFE) .- The Cabildo de Tenerife in a statement today mourned the loss of Rafael Arozarena, one of the great masters of letters canary, who died at age 86.
Insular Corporation recalls with sadness the author of such iconic works as "Mararía" and "red-grain beer, poet writer and prose that marked a before and after in the history of the island's literature.
the creator, along with Isaac de Vega, Antonio Bermejo and José Antonio Padrón Fetasianos group of the Cabildo of Tenerife said in its letter to his many contributions to the art of the word and having taken the name of the Canary Islands around the world.
"It will be his own story, his own words, his mind trapped in frames that say goodbye to Rafael Arozarena, the man who during the presentation of his last published novel, The Blind of the crescent (presented last December ), recalled that in the simplest things is where the beauty of life, "said the statement from the council.
The storyteller and poet Rafael Arozarena Bending (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1923) is considered one of the leading figures in contemporary literature and inserted canary in the generation of war.
Member of fetasiano, Arozarena has cultivated numerous genres.
His first stories were published in Arch during the 1940 and their first books of poems, ballads Canario (1946) and the shadow of Crows (1947).
The best-known works by the public are his novels Mararía (1973) and red beans Beer (1984).
Over the past five decades has published several short stories and poems, plus numerous articles and essays in the press. EFE
taken from ABC News
