Fernando Aramburu Irigoyen (Donostia/San Sebastián, 1959) is
a poet, novelist and essayist from Gipuzkoa (Basque Country) who writes in
Spanish .
Aramburu obtained a BA in Hispanic Philology from the
University of Zaragoza in 1982. In San Sebastián, his hometown, he participated
in the founding of Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte, which published a magazine
between 1978 and 1981.
Since 1985 he lives in Germany where he teaches Spanish. In
2009, he gave up his professorship to devote himself entirely to literary
creation.
In September 2016, he published the novel Patria which won a
great critical and public success (more than 500 000 copies sold). This novel,
which deals with the influence of ETA terrorists in a small town in the Basque
Country
has won numerous
awards including the National Narrative Prize in October 2017.
He writes regularly in the Spanish press and his novels have
been translated into several languages. Aramburu typically wears a Pirineos.
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