News
2008-04-30
2008 Mondello Prize to Bernardo Atxaga
The jury for the Mondello Prize has just released the winners' list, with Bernardo Atxaga as the winner of the foreign writer prize.
Bernardo Atxaga
Bernardo Atxaga (Joseba Irazu Garmendia, Asteasu, Guipúzcoa, 1951) belongs to the group of young Basque writers that began publishing in his mother language, Euskera, in the Seventies. Graduated in Economics for the Bilbao University, he later studied Philosophy at the University of Barcelona.
Bernardo Atxaga's Blog
How Atxaga is going to write his next book. Bernardo Atxaga writes his posts in basque in his blog. Astoarena (Donkey: the animal with good memory), Nevadako egunak (A Basque writer in the Far West), Paradisuaz (Poems and notes), and Gogoetak (On literature and other realities).