News
2010-01-18
"The Accordionist's Son" wins translation prize
The English version of the novel "Soinujolearen semea", "The Accordionist's Son", has just been awarded the TLS Translation 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).