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<\/a>Photo of the jury<\/p><\/div>\n
Profiles of the award winners<\/strong><\/p>\n Eduardo Aznar holds a degree in Geography and History from the University of La Laguna, is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, and has taught this subject for over three decades. He also holds a doctorate in History from the University of Seville.<\/p>\n Aznar Vallejo was one of the founders, and for many years director, of the Center (and later institute) of Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the ULL and corresponding members of the Royal Academy of History.<\/p>\n In his teaching career he has taught more than twenty subjects, incorporating knowledge about the History of the Canary Islands into the official university degrees in many of them.<\/p>\n He has been the main innovator of studies on the formation process of modern Canarian society, in whose subject matter his academic work is a worthy continuation of that which, under the guidance of El\u00edas Serra Rafolls, placed Canarian historiography within the parameters of excellence of historical research of his time.<\/p>\n Basilio Valladares, professor emeritus of the University of La Laguna, recipient of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Pharmacy and professor of parasitology, founded and directed the University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands until his retirement in order to investigate tropical diseases and those pathologies that affect the poorest populations<\/p>\n He has focused much of his professional career on parasitolytic research, has directed more than 30 doctoral theses and has published numerous scientific articles in national and international journals.<\/p>\n In 2013, he promoted the creation of the Canary Foundation for the control of tropical diseases in order to raise the necessary funds to promote and strengthen the projects planned by the University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands, especially in Africa where it has developed various projects financed by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.<\/p>\n Gonzalo Gonz\u00e1lez is an artist, painter, and sculptor with a long and distinguished career in the Canary Islands and Spain. He has played a vital role in the aesthetic transformations of visual art since the 1970s.<\/p>\n His work has managed to create a unique space where diverse planes converge: his poetic definition of insularity, his commitment to the role of art amidst historical events, and his permanent defense of the most individual expression in the domain of memory.<\/p>\n This work is identified alongside the great names that established in the Canary Islands the way of inhabiting the crossroads of contemporary culture, contributing decisively to the creation of an imaginary of the Atlantic condition<\/p>\n Alongside his painting and sculpture work, he has developed extensive work as a draftsman, illustrator, engraver and set designer and has shown his creations in numerous solo exhibitions in the Canary Islands, Madrid, and other Spanish cities; Germany and Italy and also in collective exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Washington, Miami, Caracas, Havana, etc.<\/p>\n Press release and photograph provided.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The juries of the 2024 Canary Islands Awards have designated the winners in the three categories this Monday, February 26th\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,59,10],"tags":[1323,3364,1223,3599],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destacado","category-institucion","category-portada-ull","tag-basilio-valladares","tag-eduardo-aznar","tag-gobierno-de-canarias","tag-premios-canarias"],"acf":[],"primary_category":null,"featured_image_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/aznar-valladares-1-300x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}