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Bernardo Atxaga

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About Bernardo Atxaga

Bernardo Atxaga (Joseba Irazu Garmendia, b. 1951) is an award-winning Basque writer, whose work spans adult and children's prose, poetry, radio, cinema and theatre, as well as short stories. He first achieved national and international fame with Obabakoak (1988), which won the National Literature Prize 1989 and has been translated into more than twenty languages. His novels have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad; most recently, Margaret Jull Costa's translation of Seven Houses in France was shortlisted for the 2012 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

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National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga from Pushkin Children's Books

8 days ago

National Mutt Day (US)

Amazing!!! The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga. Published by Pushkin Children's Books.

2 months ago

National Mutt Day (US)

Why not try Shola and the Lions by Bernardo Atxaga. Published by Pushkin Children's Books.

2 months ago

World Children's Day

You should read The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga. Published by Pushkin Children's Books.

2 months ago

World Children's Day

Loving Shola and the Lions by Bernardo Atxaga from Pushkin Children's Books.

2 months ago

National Tell A Story Day

Books can be so much fun, why not share this one The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga from Pushkin Children's Books

3 months ago

Hug your cat day

Why not celebrate cats with Shola and the Lionsby Bernardo Atxaga from Pushkin Children's Books.

8 months ago

International Museums Day

Read The Adventures of Shola by Bernardo Atxaga from Pushkin Children's Books to delve into the past!

8 months ago

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