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About Bernardo Atxaga

Bernardo Atxaga was born in Gipuzkoa in Spain in 1951 and lives in the Basque Country writing in Basque and Spanish. He is a prizewinning novelist and poet whose books including Obabakoak and The Accordionist's Son have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad. His works have been translated into twenty-two languages.Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator from Spanish and Portugese for over twenty years translating such writers as José Saramago Eça de Queiroz Luis Fernando Verissimo and Fernando Pessoa. Her work has brought her a number of prizes the most recent of which was the 2010 Premio Valle-Inclán for Javier Marías Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison Shadow and Farewell.