Canarian Writers Present Novels at Tacoronte Festival

Annika Brunke and José Zoilo Hernández participate in the VI Tacoronte City Historical Novel Festival with their latest works.

Escritores canarios presentan sus novelas en el Festival de Tacoronte

Ayuntamiento de Tacoronte

Canarian writers Annika Brunke and José Zoilo Hernández are participating this Friday, November 13th, in the VI Tacoronte City Historical Novel Festival to present their latest works.

Annika Brunke will present her novel Triana, 1899 (B de Papel, 2026) at 18:00, accompanied by Zoilo himself. Subsequently, at 19:00, José Zoilo Hernández will present Dragón (Edhasa, 2026) with Jesús Barranco. Both events, with free and open access, will take place in the Óscar Domínguez hall of the municipal House of Culture.
In parallel, the Ismael Domínguez hall of the House of Culture will be open from 17:00 to 20:00 for the collection of short films participating in the Tacoronte Express contest, the festival's cinematic section.
Friday's schedule will conclude at 20:30 with the performance of the play La inmortalidad, by Antonio Tabares, by Delirium Teatro at the Capitol Auditorium. Access is free, and tickets can be reserved on the Auditorium's website.
Starting Saturday, November 14th, the Ismael Domínguez hall will host three literary workshops. On Saturday at 10:30, Ana Belén Hormiga will lead her Children's Writing Workshop, and at 17:00, Rumen Sosa will direct the Introduction to Amazigh Writing Workshop. Finally, on Sunday, November 15th, at 10:30, Víctor Bello will offer the Historical Novel Writing Workshop.
Triana, 1899, Annika Brunke's novel, focuses on inspector Ingo Müller and a murder case linked to a decade-old crime in the Vegueta neighborhood. The plot includes the inspector's personal concerns and is based on the real case of “El crimen de la cloaca”.
José Zoilo Hernández presents Dragón, which concludes the story of Goar and Safrax, set after the Battle of Adrianople in a fragmented Roman Empire facing threats of civil war.
The Amazigh writing workshop led by Rumen Sosa aims to introduce this script through historical examples and the study of the linguistic shift from Guanche to Castilian. Ana Belén Hormiga, a graduate in Hispanic Philology, will base her children's workshop on her novel Los niños que sembraron Montevideo. Meanwhile, Víctor M. Bello Jiménez, a Doctor of History, will provide an introduction to the historical novel genre, combining truth and fiction.
Based on information from the official source: Ayuntamiento de Tacoronte (12/11/2026)