Iban Zaldua

Iban Zaldua (1966). He teaches history and is from Donosti. His books include Gezurrak, gezurrak, gezurrak, gezurrak (2000), La isla de los antropólogos y otros relatos (2002), Itzalak (2004), Etorkizuna (2005, Euskadi Prize for Literature), Biodiskografiak (2011), Inon ez, inoiz ez (2014), Sekula kontatu behar ez nizkizun gauzak (2018), Como si todo hubiera pasado (2018)... He has also written novels such as Si Sabino viviría (2005) and essays such as Ese idioma raro y poderoso (2012, Euskadi Prize for essays in Spanish) or (Euskal) Literaturaren alde (eta kontra) (2016) and comic scripts such as Azken garaipena, together with the cartoonist Julen Ribas (2011, Euskadi Prize for young people's literature). His latest work published in Spanish is the collection of essayistic texts Panfletario. Manifestos, decálogos y otros artefactos a favor (y en contra) de la literatura (2021) and, in Basque, the anthology Nola izan garen gauza (2021). He was a member of the literary magazine Volgako Batelariak.