Background
Bernardo Atxaga was born Joseba Irazu Garmendia in Asteasu, Spain, on July 27, 1951.
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Atxaga studied philosophy at the University of Barcelona.
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The most famous novel by Spain’s premier Basque novelist, re-jacketed for a whole new set of readers. Obabakoak is a novel composed of twenty-six linked tales and parodies.
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1988
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Irene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Deciding to return home to Bilbao, she takes a bus journey across Spain, striking up conversations with the passengers who include two plainclothes policemen.
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1996
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An outstanding new novel from the critically acclaimed and prizewinning author Bernardo Atxaga, Seven Houses in France is a blackly comic tale which reveals the darkest sides of human desire.
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2009
Bernardo Atxaga was born Joseba Irazu Garmendia in Asteasu, Spain, on July 27, 1951.
Atxaga graduated from the University of Bilbao with a diploma in economics, and studied philosophy at the University of Barcelona.
Atxaga worked as an economist, bookseller, professor of the Basque language, a publisher, and a radio scriptwriter until 1980 when he dedicated himself completely to writing. He became an internationally known author after the 1988 publication of his novel-in-stories Obabakoak. Previously, he had written poetry, children’s books and two early novels. His practice is to write in Basque, then translate his own work into Spanish for publication. Even so, there is no doubt of Atxaga’s allegiance to his Basque heritage, for much of his work is set in that culture, and his novel The Lone Man, published in the United States in 1997, sympathetically portrays Basque separatism.
Obabakoak, his best-known work, is made up of three sections, each of which contains a number of stories, some of which, in turn, are themselves made up of stories. The work is nominally set in a small village named Obaba; the word Obabakoak, according to the Times Literary Supplement's Abigail Lee Six, means “the people and things of Obaba”.
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1988(Irene is 37 years old and just out of prison after servin...)
1996Bernardo Atxaga became a full member of the Royal Academy of the Basque Language and in November, 2010 he was also appointed a member of Jakiunde, Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.