Publications

In 1977 several young men gathered in Bilbao and created the literary group called “Pott”. The experience lasted only 3 years, but it revolutionized Basque literature. This year is the 40th anniversary of the group made up of Atxaga, Sarrionandia, Ordorika, Juaristi, Iturralde and Ertzilla.

Published this past June, “Nevada Days”, the English translation of Días de Nevada (Pamiela, 2013), has been praised by readers and critics alike. Here are some of the accolades received.

As part of the Chekhov vs. Shakespeare program sponsored by Donostia San Sebastían 2016, different writers exchanged letters over the course of a few months earlier in the year, reflecting on literature, conflict, and the role of the writer. These correspondences have been published in a series of volumes, one of which includes the epistolary…

The literary magazine Erlea, led by Bernardo Atxaga and published by Euskaltzaindia, celebrates its tenth issue. In this edition, the thread running throughout the issue is the theater.

Literary Wonderlands, about to be released by Black Dog & Leventhal, is a collection of the 100 greatest fictional universes in world literature. Among them is the fictional world of Obaba, created by Bernardo Atxaga.

Lumen Press has just put out an unpublished work by Jorge Luis Borges titled The Tango: Four Lectures (Lumen, 2016). The volume contains a series of lectures given by Borges in 1965, in which he spoke about the tango, his youth, Buenos Aires and Argentina. Nobody knew about these lectures until the year 2002, when…

The French edition of Días de Nevada has just been published by Editions Christian Bourgois.

British publisher Bloomsbury has just released the book “Novel Writing: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion”, a guide for writers in which several established novelists —including Bernardo Atxaga— share their experience with the process of creating a novel.

This week the latest edition of Bernardo Atxaga’s most universal novel, Obabakoak, has been released. This time it has been published in Turkish by publisher Aylak Adam.

Writer Bernardo Atxaga participated in several events in Mexico last week. He spent two days at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, where he presented his latest book Días de Nevada. He later made an appearance alongside journalist Javier Aranda at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City on December 3, which coincided with…