Carlos Platero Fernández

Category: Writer
Birth Date: 1932
Birth Place: A Coruña
 Curriculum

He arrived in the Canary Islands in 1949. Since 1953, he has been living in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He wrote about Canarian and Galician themes. His eager spirit made him travel around the whole Spanish territory, the Western Sahara and Europe from the beginning to end. He feels a deep love for Galician and Canarian culture and tradition, which is reflected in the recreation of the Canarian past and the determination to make Galician culture known in the Canary Islands, mainly those aspects that can be common between both regions. In the last forty years, he has edited 'Aturuxo', the yearly magazine of 'Casa de Galicia' in Las Palmas. He has collaborated in the local press with more than 500 articles and different reports and in several magazines, Galician newspapers and other publications. He also held radio programmes for some time in different Canarian radio stations.

 Work & Activities

He wrote many works about Galician themes such as: Un episodio de los tiempos celtas (Las Palmas 1969); Gallegos en Gran Canaria (Santiago 2000) and other works about Canary themes such as: De la historia de Canarias (Las Palmas 1969), Mis exploraciones canarias (Las Palmas 1970) La historia de Canarias en episodios (Las Palmas 1971) ...De la isla redonda, tales (Bilbao 1973), El cine en Canarias (Las Palmas 1981), Los apellidos en Canarias (Las Palmas 1982), Calles de Las Palmas (Las Palmas 1998), Nuevo nomenclator callejero de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Las Cabalgatas de Reyes en Las Palmas. He also wrote other works, which are still unpublished but have already been presented in several newspapers, magazines and bulletins. These are some of the most outstanding ones: Un señor de Villardeferreiros, Apócrifo virrey del Perú; Guatatiboa sobre gastronomía canaria de tódolos tempos; Santa Catalina, historia dunhas ermidas e dun barrio palmense; Perfiles isleños, radio comments; Andar, ver y conocer Gran Canaria; Usos y costumbres de los aborígenes canarios; Los aborígenes en las cinco Crónicas de la Conquista de Gran Canaria; Diez temas canarios; Entre la historia y la leyenda; Tradiciones canarias; Gando; La Radio en Canarias; Comas Quesada y yo; Salvago y su ermita; La pequeña historia sobre a Alcaldía e os Alcaldes nas Palmas; Raíces Canarias; Memoria canaria; La isla de cristal y otros cuentos; Los cuentos de Carlos Platero; the short novels El amor y el odio están en la cueva; Tenagua o la Casa del Cañaveral and La torre del odio (about Galicia in the Middle Ages); as well as the monographs Escaleritas that is the story of this district in Las Palmas, La calles de Escaleritas and De la fonda al hotel, which is a story about the first hotels in Las Palmas. We must also mention his unpublished books: Siete temas gallegos, about historic, legendary and artistic events in Galicia (De celtas y comics - El ciclo artúrico o asturiano - San Antolín de Toques y su excepcional Calvario - El curato de Ponte Arcediago - La batalla de Porto de Bois - García de Remesil and La Torre de Sanxurxo y Carlomagno y Galicia) and Parolando, which is a selection of texts taken from conferences in the Canarian Islands about Galician themes.

 Other Interesting Aspects

All publishers and distributors that are interested in publishing his work can get in touch with him in the following address: C/ Juan Rodríguez Quegles, nº 35 -1º 35011 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria