Urtzi Urrutikoetxea
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Urtzi Urrutikoetxea (born 12 October 1977 in Bilbao, Bizkaia, Basque Country) is a Basque writer and journalist.
He has worked for the Euskal Telebista (Basque television), as well as in several publications in the Basque language, such as Euskaldunon Egunkaria, Berria, Gara, Jakin, Argia and Bertsolari, among others.
He has published three books of poems and one novel in Basque, and one guidebook in Spanish about the city of Berlin, where he has lived and worked as correspondent. Urtzi Urrutikoetxea is the translator into Basque of the Hungarian Nobel Prize Laureate Imre Kertesz's Fateless. He has also worked in the field of bertsolaritza (oral improvised poetry in the Basque language), collaborating in different projects like the book Bizkaiko Bertsogintza IV (2006). He is also a member of the Basque PEN Club.
[edit] External links
- Urtzi Urrutikoetxea Vacas in the Spanish-language Auñamendi Encyclopedia.
