Irati Elorrieta

Irati Elorrieta was born in a coastal village in the Basque Country in 1979. She is a writer in Euskara – the Basque language – and has lived in Berlin for more than 20 years now. Her short story novel Burbuilak (Bubbles) was published first in Euskara in 2009 and then in Spanish in 2011, Burbujas (Alberdania). She has translated works by Rotraut Susanne Berner and Daniel Glattauer from German into Basque and has collaborated as a columnist in print media. The novel Neguko argiak (Pamiela) was the winner of the Euskadi Award for Literature in Basque in 2019; it was published in 2021 in Spanish by Galaxia Gutenberg as Luces de invierno (Winter lights).