Juan María Lekuona Berasategi (

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Guipúzcoa Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...

, 1927 - Donostia, 5 December 2005) was a

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

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in euskera. He was Manuel Lekuona's

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. In 1953 he became a

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. After his residence in

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, where he defended his

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, he worked in Añorga, near Donostia. He read

Gabriel Aresti Gabriel Aresti Segurola (October 14, 1933 – June 5, 1975) was one of the most important writers and poets in Basque language in the 20th century. He grew up in Bilbao, which was a Spanish-speaking environment. Although his father talked to ...

's books in those years and that is why his work was very orientated to social fight in the beginning, as we can see in ''Mindura gaur'', his first book. He was the first president of EIZIE in 1987. His studies about bersolarism (oral

tradition) are very important and he became a member of

Euskaltzaindia Euskaltzaindia (; often translated Royal Academy of the Basque Language) is the official academic language regulatory institution which watches over the Basque language. It conducts research, seeks to protect the language, and establishes stand ...

in 1988. He won several prices in life, like two ''Premios Euskadi de Literatura'', in 1979 and 1990.

External links

Lekuona at ''El Poder de la Palabra'' (in Spanish)Biography of Lekuona (in Basque)
1927 births 2005 deaths Spanish male poets 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-poet-stub