Background
Txakartegi grew up hearing Biscayan and Gipuzkoan dialects of the Basque language, fully embracing Batua, the unified standard dialect, once it become codified.
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Gorka Aulestia Txakartegi
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As a young man he studied philosophy and theology, hoping to be ordained as a priest. In French and Spanish literature, and finally his Doctor of Philosophy in Basque Studies in 1987 at the University of Nevada, Reno, with the thesis El bertsolarismo: literatura oral improvisada en el País Vasco.
Career
Instead, he received a degee in social economy from the University of Deusto in Bilbao. Later he migrated to the United States, where he received his Master of Arts He served as the Basque language editor at the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada (Reno, United States of America) between 1976 and 1979. In the period 1980 - 1988 he acted as a lexicographer and an instructor in the Basque Studies Program, and the following year he finally became an assistant professor
From 1989 until 2000, when he retired, he taught literature in the Basque EUTG center (San Sebastián) at the University of Deusto.
He wrote 10 books, 91 articles, and numerous other publications such as conference papers and book reviews. He wrote the following books:
Basque-English Dictionary (edit University of Nevada-Press, 1989)
English-Basque Dictionary (together with Linda White, edit University of Nevada Press, 1990)
Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary (together with con Linda White, edit University of Nevada Press, 1992)
Bertsolarismo (edit Vizcaya Provincial Council, 1990)
Erbesteko euskal literaturaren antologia (edit JA Ascunce, 1992)
Improvisational Poetry fronm the Basque Country (edit University of Nevada Press, 1995)
Le Pays Basque vu par les Romantiques Français (dissertation, Editorial University of Nevada Press, 1978)
Escritores Vascos (edit Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa, 1996);
The Basque Poetic Tradition (edit University of Nevada Press, 2000)
Los Escritores.
Hitos de la Literatura Clásica Euskérica (edit Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa, 1996). He wrote book reviews for the publications such as World Literature Today, Basque Artistic Expression (Society of Basque Studies in America) and Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, as well as articles such as Bernard Etxepare, Medieval or Renaissance Writer? or Survey of French Basque Literature in the 20th Century.
Since 2002 he was preparing a dictionary of Basque literature, a project sponsored by Euskaltzaindia, in which he had worked for ten years.
Membership
He is a corresponding member of the Euskaltzaindia since 1996, member of the committee on Basque literature.
