The project presented by Gema Lopez Las Heras He has been the winner of the Jokin Zaitegi Translation Contest, organized by the Euskaldundu Dezagun and the Elkar Editorial Association with the collaboration of the Kutxa City Council and Labor Kutxa to select the person in charge of bringing to Basque a work of the winner or the winner of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A court formed by Xabier Etxeberria, Joannes Jauregi and Leire Vargas has been in charge of choosing the winning person. Therefore, Lopez Las Heras will have to translate the novel into Basque The vegetarian of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024, which the editorial Elkar will publish in Basque at the end of 2025.

The translator will have the collaboration of the Euskaldun Korean Sora Ryu. Gema Lopez Las Heras already won the Zaitegi Award two years ago, thanks to the one who tranduo to the Basque Emakume Izoztua of Annie Ernaux.

Thanks to this award, works by Imre Kertsesz, JM Coetzee, Elfriede Jelinek, Harold Pinter, Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, JMG Le Clézio, Herta Müller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Tomas Trantömer, Mo Yan, Svetlana Aleksievitx, Bob Dylan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Louise Glück, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux and Jon Fosse.

Source: Eitb

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