Pedro Ugarte

Background

He was born in Bilbao and studied law at the Universidad de Deusto.

Career

He now teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco. He has also worked with Radio Euskadi and contributed columns to the Basque edition of El Paíson He has written many works of fiction, spanning novels and short stories.

His work has been translated into Italian, French, German and Polish.

Achievements

• His debut novel Los cuerpos de las nadadoras was nominated for the Premio Herralde while his most recent novel El país del dinero won the Premio Logroño de Novela in 2011.