Isaac de Vega (7 November 1920 – 3 February 2014) was a Spanish

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writer. He received the Premio Canarias de Literatura in 1988 along with

Rafael Arozarena Rafael Arozarena (April 4, 1923 – September 30, 2009) was a Spanish poet and novelist, born in Tenerife, Canary Islands. He studied medicine and after that he started writing books, because writing was what he liked the most and what he usually ...

. De Vega was born in

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and studied at the

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. He formed a part of the

fetasiano group The Fetasiano group were a group of writers from the Canary Islands between the 1950s and the 1970s. It included Rafael Arozarena Rafael Arozarena (April 4, 1923 – September 30, 2009) was a Spanish poet and novelist, born in Tenerife, Canary Is ...

with other Canarian writers including

and

José Antonio Padrón José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

. His daughter

María Teresa de Vega María Teresa de Vega is a Spanish writer and poet. She has been included within the Generation 21 group of writers. Biography María Teresa de Vega was born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. She is the daughter of writer Isaac de Vega w ...

is a writer and poet.

Literature

He wrote several works including: *'' Antes del amanecer'' (1956) *'' Fetasa'' (1957) *''Cuatro relatos'' (1968) *'' Parhelios'' (1977) *'' Pulsatia'' (1988) *''Conjuro en Ijuana'' (1981)

References

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