Bingen Zupiria, Minister of Culture and Language Policy of the Basque Government, announced this morning at the Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao the winners in four categories of the Euskadi Literature Awards. Is about Txani Rodriguez (“The last romantics”), Alex Gurrutxaga (“Xabier Lete, singer poet of the homeland”), Mikel Reparaz (“The cracks of America”) and Javier de Isusi (“Transparent. Histories of the Colombian Exile”), in the categories of Literature in Spanish, Essay in Basque, Essay in Spanish and Illustration of literary work.
These names join those of the winners announced last week: Pello Lizarralde (“Argiantza”), Anjel Lertxundi (“Haltzaren Mintzoa”) and Joxan Elosegi (“I sing and dance the mountains”), in the categories of Literature in Basque, Children’s and Youth Literature in Basque and Literary Translation into Basque.
For the jury of the Spanish Literature modality, the writing of Txani Rodríguez, a collaborator of the Radio Euskadi program “Pompas de papel”, is “incisive, attentive to detail and endowed with an excellent narrative rhythm. She has a fresh voice, original and proper, which is the feature that has most attracted the attention of the court. “
The jury for the award in the Euskera Essay modality, for its part, highlighted that “Aberriaren poeta kantaria” “contributes a lot about the poet Xabier Lete and his work. It allows us to meet one of our great poets, makes his ideas public, and he also relates his songs and his concerts with the atmosphere and the thought of that time “.
For its part, the award jury in the Spanish Essay modality has underlined that the trip to the United States proposed by Mikel Reparaz, head of the International Area of EITB, is “a trip, also excellently written, in which the interest and the topicality of the subject, as well as the coherence in its treatment “.
About the work “Tranparentes. Historias del exilio colombiano” by Javier de Isusi, the jury believes that “it is a comic with emotional weight but at the same time an agile and round book in its structure, with very good narrative and graphic technique that manages to close the story in an outstanding way. “
Each prize is endowed with 18,000 euros, which can be increased by an additional 4,000 euros if the work is published in another language. The awards will be delivered on November 18 in Vitoria.
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