In the Church of San Marcial de Femés, next Tuesday, November 24, starting at 8:30 p.m., a necrological academic session will be held in homage to the recently deceased Canarian author Rafael Arozarena. The event will have the presence of the Mayor of the Yaiza City Council, Gladys Acuña, the southern Councilor for Education, Juana Guardia, and Francisco González de Posada, professor of Applied Physics at the Higher Technical School of the Polytechnic University of Madrid and director of the Scientific and Cultural Center "Blas Cabrera".
Tribute to a great Canarian writer
The necrological academic session will consist of "Praises of remembrance" with the reading of texts by academics, presentation of the exhibition "Specters of Lanzarote" by Rafael Arozarena exhibited in La Casona de Femés in 2004 and the Laudatio (funeral eulogy) academic by Francisco González de Posada.
González de Posada, one of the architects of the tribute to Arozarena, is professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, full academician of the Royal National Academy of Medicine, member of the Institute of Canarian Studies and president of the Academy of Sciences and Engineering of Lanzarote.
Passed away on September 29
Poet and prose writer who died on September 29 at the age of 86, the work of Rafael Arozarena is considered one of the most interesting contributions to Canarian literature of the second half of the 20th century. In the 1950s he was part, together with Canarian writers such as Isaac de Vega, Antonio Bermejo and José Antonio Padrón of the Fetasiano group that, in the midst of the oppressive reality of the years of Franco's regime, developed a vision on literature, the human being and his difficult relationship with the world, which constitutes a piece of great relevance of contemporary Canarian culture. In 2000 he joined the Canarian Academy of Language. His novel "Mararía", finalist for the Nadal Prize in 1971, is considered a classic work of Canarian literature, which was also brought to the cinema in 1998 by director Antonio José Betancor, with music by the Tenerife singer-songwriter Pedro Guerra.
