Agustín Díaz Pacheco

Agustín Díaz Pacheco (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, July 3, 1952) is a Spanish writer.

Biography

Writer, university graduate as a Social Graduate (Labor Relations) and Law studies. He has written poetry sporadically, appearing on the digital page canariasdigital.org, but he has opted for vocational journalism and narrative creation.

Some of his stories, chosen from 2004 to 2007, integrating the syllabus of the University of Georgia (USA), which brings together texts by the writers Rubén Darío, Roberto Arlt, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, Alfonso Sastre, Mario Benedetti, Eduardo Galeano, Ernesto Sabato or Elena Poniatowska, to lead different projects analyzing Hispanic literature.

For seven years he was Literary Director of the New Canarian Writings Collection for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

He has won several literary awards. He is director and coordinator of the supplement Signos Culturales (pepevaros.com). His texts have been translated into French, Croatian, German and English.

To his credit, two unpublished novels.

Narrative work

• Stone nenúfares (1981), stories
• The water chain and other stories (1984), stories
• The breakage compensates (1986), stories
• The memory cabin (1987), novel. Reissued in 1996, 2008 and 2011
• The silver look (1993)
• Proa in fog (1999), stories. Reissued in 2013
• Short short shortcuts (2002), stories. Reissued in 2013
• Shipwreck Line (2003), stories. Reissued in 2006 and 2015
• Autumn Tales (2020), stories

It appears in the following anthologies:

• Narrativa Canaria Last, Volume III (1997)
• Canary Islands 20th centuryVolume II (1993)
• Collection and Geography of Canaries TalesTomo I (1993)
• Literature Canary Islands 1940-1980Volume II (1993)
• Canarian narrative studies, The Hadji Amadou Ndoye (1998 and 2006)
• The literary story of the twentieth century in the Canary Islands. (Study and anthology), Juan-José Delgado (1999)
• Anthology of Canaries-Croatia (Tenerife-Zagreb, reciprocally translated, 2002)
• Atlantis Tales (Anthology of the current Canarian tale), (Madrid, 2005)
• 2.050 km. words (Anthology of Basque-Canaria stories), an initiative that coordinated with the Basque writer Óscar Alonso (2007), and also coordinator, together with the Portuguese writer Fernando Esteves Pinto, of Between the magua and the saudade
• From the saudade to the magua. Anthology of luso-canary accounts, proposal that I make and already translated into reality. In the same they appear as anthologists the Portuguese writer Fernando Esteves Pinto and Agustín Díaz Pacheco. Published in 2009.
• Between East and Atlanteans. Anthology of Uruguayan-channel accounts, being responsible literary of the same Uruguayan writer Gustavo Esmoris and the canary writer Agustín Díaz Pacheco. Published in 2010.
• Thirteen grams of star gofi. Anthology of Canarian tales of science-fiction, coordinated by writers Juan Ignacio Royo and Ánghel Morales, Editions IDEA, 2010.
• Anthology of Canary-Portuguese storiesin the press, 2009.

Also in Togas and Letters. Meeting of texts, with a background article of an essayistic nature entitled:

• In the courage of the lines (IslaVaria, 2006), as well as selected to integrate the book Culture to debate (IDEA Editions, 2006).

It has been selected by the magazine Discoplay (Madrid, July 1987), along with works by authors such as: Salman Rushdie, Malcolm Lowry, Carmen Martín Gaite, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Ambrose Bierce, Adolfo Bioy Casares or Giovanni Guareschi.