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The play Bi – Storie di Obaba debuts in Italy with great success
The Nuovo Teatri Sanitá company has just debuted a play based on Bernardo Atxagas novel Two Brothers (Bi anai, Erein, 1985). Following its successful opening run in Naples, the play is moving to Milan.
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“Casas y tumbas” listed among the literary highlights of 2020 by RTVE.
The year 2020, which has just begun, will bring with it many anticipated literary releases, including Casas y tumbas by Bernardo Atxaga, which RTVE has included on its list of featured publications for this year.
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Special edition of Obabakoak (Alfaguara, 2019), with illustrations by Marta Cárdenas
Alfaguara has just published a special edition of Obabakoak.
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Bernardo Atxaga receives the 2019 National Prize for Spanish Literature
Bernardo Atxaga has been awarded the National Prize for Spanish Literature 2019 for “his fundamental contribution to the modernization and international dissemination of the Basque and Spanish languages,” according to the jury.
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“Etxeak eta hilobiak”, Bernardo Atxaga’s last novel
Last Wednesday saw the launch of Etxeak eta hilobiak, a novel that is the result of two years’ work and which, as the writer himself has announced, will be his last novel.
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Xordica republishes “Lista de locos y otros alfabetos”
Lista de locos y otros alfabetos was first published 20 years ago (Siruela, 1998), and last week the republished edition was launched at an event in Madrid.
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The film The Accordionist’s Son, based on the novel of the same name by writer Bernardo Atxaga, lands in cinemas
After nearly a year of filming and post-production, the moment has finally arrived. An advance screening of The Accordionist’s Son was held in San Sebastián last week, followed by its premiere at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid on April 8th. On April 12th it will open in theaters across the country. Based on Atxaga’s novel…
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Bernardo Atxaga contributes a stone to the Talking Stones Garden in Santiago de Compostela
Bernardo Atxaga was in Santiago de Compostela last weekend to attend a literary event at the Talking Stones Garden (Xardín das pedras que falan), in which a stone inscribed with a poem by the Basque writer was installed.
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Bernardo Atxagas The Adventures of Shola lands a spot on the “Wonderful Kids Books for Dog Lovers” list
The Ezvid Wiki community has published a list of the ten best books for dog lovers, including the adventures of Shola the dog (“The adventures of Shola”, Pushkin, 2013).
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“Nevada Days” finalist in the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards
PEN America has announced the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. This years awards will confer more than $370,000 to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2018. Bernardo Atxaga’s Nevada Days is one of the works nominated for the Translation Prize.
