Arantxa Urretabizkaia

Arantxa Urretabizkaia ( born July 1, 1947 in Donostia ) is a Basque writer.

Life

Arantxa Urretabizkaia, born in 1947 in Donostia, now lives in Hondarribia. As an important voice that qualified historian is a regular guest on talk shows and discussions on political and social issues. In 2001 she received the Rikardo Arregi price for their journalistic activities.

Works in Basque

Among her poetic work San Pedro bezperaren ondokoak (1972, The consequences of the night before San Pedro) and Maitasunaren magalean (1982, in the bosom of love). Her best-known prose publication is zergatik Panpox (1979, Why Panpox ). The short novel provoked at the time, because the author chose a single mother as protagonist.

This was followed by screenplays, more novels like Saturno (1987, Saturn) and Koaderno Gorria (1998, The red book ) and the story collection Aspaldian espero zaitudalako ez nago sekula bakarrik (1983, As I have long been waiting for you, I 'm never lonely ) and the youth book Aurten aldatuko because nire bizitza (1992, This year, my life will change).

Works on German

In 2007 published the Pahl - Rugenstein publishing the German translation of Koaderno Gorria - The red booklet in the series Zubiak - Basque library. It is a letter from a Basque activist who went underground in the 1980s to avoid arrest. In it she tells her personal story, which is closely interwoven with the political struggles of those years. Since they can not leave their hiding place, she asks the young lawyer Laura track down the children in Caracas and to give them the book.