News
2008-09-04
Bernardo Atxaga to participate in Mantua's literary festival
Bernardo Atxaga will participate in Festivaletteratura Mantova, the literary festival held in Mantua, Italy, which begins today and runs through Sunday, September 7.
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).