The writer from Lanzarote Lana Corujo, author of the successful novel Han cantado bingo (2025), has been awarded the Premio Azagal de Literatura Juvenil granted by the Cabildo de Tenerife to promote reading among young people as an educational tool and for critical thinking. The author has already sold almost 20,000 copies of this book.
Lana Corujo, born in Lanzarote in 1995, trained as a illustrator in Madrid and France and has developed editorial and cultural projects, including the creation of her own publishing house.
She is the author of the poetry collections Ropavieja (2021), with which she was selected by the Ministry of Culture to participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair and Nueve dos ocho, in addition to her first novel Han cantado bingo (2025). For this novel she received the Javier Morote award for best emerging author and women's bookstore 2025.
In addition, received a scholarship from the Centros de Arte, Cultura y Turismo de Lanzarote to carry out an artistic residency with the Fundación ACE in Buenos Aires in 2023.
Handover ceremony at the Tenerife Arts Space
The award ceremony took place this Tuesday at the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) center in a session that brought together students, teachers, and authors in a participatory meeting that culminates the work developed throughout the course in the island's educational centers.
In this edition, 175 students and 25 teachers from secondary schools have participated, who have been part of the reading committees responsible for selecting the winning work, as reported by the Cabildo de Tenerife in a statement.
Likewise, the finalist works are announced through ‘Palabras Filmadas’, another project within the Insular Program for Encouraging Reading and Study Techniques with 4th year ESO students.
The Azagal Award culminates an annual process in which young people read, analyze, and debate works of young adult literature, to finally choose the winning novel after a direct encounter with its authors.
During the event held at the TEA, participants attended meetings with the finalist authors, facilitated activities, and the final vote, which determined the winning work, in addition to two honorable mentions, which went to "TerraDraga," by Arden Montag; and "Intruso," by David Lozano.
The program includes initiatives such as reading committees and the Azagal Library, thus consolidating itself as one of the most innovative proposals in the educational and cultural field in Spain, according to the Cabildo de Tenerife.
