The citizens of Lanzarote will be able to enjoy live a scenic journey through the work and life of one of the most recognized Canary Islands writers of the 20th and 21st centuries: Cecilia Domínguez Luis, to whom the Government of the Canary Islands dedicated the Writers' Day in 2023. This Sunday the 29th, at 7:00 p.m., the La Tegala Theater Hall in Haría will host the performance Cecilia: woman, poetry and world, a scenic proposal and colloquium with the author. Admission is free until full capacity and tickets must be picked up at Cultura de Haría.
This tribute, organized by the Culture area of the Government of the Canary Islands, includes a face-to-face talk with the writer, Canary Islands Literature Prize in 2015, and the staging of several of her poems, showing her creative evolution, as well as her recurring themes: the territory, identity or poetic questioning. These interpretations will be carried out by Ylenia Quintero Campos and Mabel Quintero Ledesma.
Cecilia Domínguez Luis (1948) felt inclined towards writing since she was a child. She is a teacher and has a degree in Hispanic Philology. She has published numerous books of poetry, novels and short stories, and her work has been translated into French, Romanian and German. She has participated as a speaker in various national and international congresses on language and literature, as well as in poetry meetings. She has also published articles, poems and short stories in newspapers and magazines in the Canary Islands and the peninsula.
She is part of the editorial committee of the Cuadernos del Ateneo magazine of the Ateneo de La Laguna, a society of which she was president between 1999 and 2001. She has also belonged to the editorial boards of other literary magazines such as Fetasa and ACL: literary magazine, of the Canary Islands Academy of Language. Since 2011 she has been a full academic of the Canary Islands Academy of Language and in June 2013 she was appointed member of the Institute of Canary Islands Studies. In 2015 she received the Canary Islands Literature Prize and in 2023 the Government of the Canary Islands made her the protagonist of Writers' Day.
