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Atxaga's Memoirs of a Basque Cow, awarded in Iran
2025-03-12 ¦ News
The farsi translation of Bernardo Atxaga's "Memoirs of a Basque Cow," has been chosen by the Children's Book Council of Iran as one the three chosen books of 2023-24.
Alireza Shafiee-Nasab, the translator of two of Atxaga's books into Persian, Obabakoak and this one, Memoirs of a Basque Cow, received the award in Tehran.
Mo, the Basque cow recalling her memories, finds her Inner Voice and a great desire to live. Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, in which defeated Republican supporters are still being persecuted by victorious Nationalists, Memoirs of a Basque Cow paints a funny, touching portrait of friendship and freedom and the sometimes difficult process of finding oneself.
Afaringen is the Iranian publisher that published this in Persian.