On the left, the Basque writer Eider Rodríguez Martín, on the right, the Argentine narrator María Inés Mogaburu
San Miguel, Argentina. Access to contemporary Basque literature is not always easy from the Diaspora, especially when you live thousands of kilometers from the Basque Country. For this reason, “Listening to books”, the proposal of the Askatasunaren Bidea group, is particularly attractive and worth taking advantage of. This Saturday, May 4, at 6 p.m., the writer and narrator María Inés Mogaburu will recreate “Paisajes” (original title Paisaiak) and “Ash”” (Errautsa), two stories by the Basque writer Eider Rodríguez. The activity is aimed at all audiences and will take place at the ‘Domingo F. Sarmiento Municipal Popular Library’ (Sarmiento 1305, corner Belgrano) in the Buenos Aires town of San Miguel, with free admission.
Saturday’s event will be dedicated to the work of Eider Rodríguez Martín, born in Errenteria, Gipuzkoa, in 1977. In addition to the story, the writer has cultivated several genres, the comic, the essay and also translation. Your book Bihotz handiegia (A Too Big Heart), published by Susa in 2017, was awarded the Euskadi Literature Prize. She currently works as a literature professor at the University of the Basque Country. About her work, María Inés Mogaburu says: “In her texts, what is fantastic about her sneaks into everyday reality, sometimes in a bright way, other times darkly. He forces us to get into his characters’ clothes. There are no good guys or bad guys, they are ordinary people to whom extraordinary things sometimes happen, like to us.”
Two more titles this year
The “Listening to Books” cycle began in 2018 and, over the years, addressed stories by established authors, such as Arantxa Iturbe, Kirmen Uribe and Joseba Sarrionandia, among others. Next Saturday will be the first of three meetings planned for this year, in which texts written by men and women from Euskal Herria that have a Spanish version will be discussed. The next ones will take place on August 24 and November 23. You can schedule them now!
