(Santa Cruz de la Palma, 1956 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1976) Son of the poet and doctor Félix Casanova de Ayala. The father described the young writer this way: «From an early age - already at seven or eight years old - he used to surprise me with unusual phrases that I wondered where he could have read. They were loose turns, almost surreal and esoteric, the sources of which it was impossible for me to inquire in any of the books in my library that might fall into his hands ». Later, Félix Francisco founded a rock group and the literary movement Equipo Hovno. In 1973, at the age of seventeen, he won the Canary Islands' main poetry prize, Julio Tovar, with his book El conservatorio. In 1974 he won the Pérez Armas novel with Demipage's reissued work, El don de Vorace. A month before his death, he won, with the poetry book A suitcase full of leaves, the contest organized by the newspaper La Tarde. Félix Francisco is also the author of the newspaper I would have or would have loved, written in 1974. He died at the age of nineteen, due to a gas leak ...