Rafael Arozarena (April 4, 1923 – September 30, 2009) was a Spanish poet and novelist from the Canary Islands.
He spent his youth under the influence of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and the post-war.
About ten years later, he started to write for a newspaper and all through his life he published six books: Alto crecen los cardos, Aprisa cantan los gallos, El omnibus pintado con cerezas, Silbato de tinta amarilla and Cerveza de grano rojo.
However, his most important book is Mararía, which was popularly received and adapted into a film in 1998.
[2] In 1988, he received the Canary Prize for Literature, the most important literary prize in the Canary Islands alongside his longtime friend Isaac de Vega.