Fernando Aramburu

Fernando Aramburu (San Sebastián, 1959) is a Spanish writer.^[1] He is the author of the novel Patria (English title: "Homeland"), which deals with terrorism in the Basque Country.^[2] His novels and poems have received important prizes: Tusquets, Vargas Llosa NH Prize, National Critics' Prize and National Prize for Narrative Writing.^[3]

Fernando Aramburu in 2011

Career

He graduated in Spanish Philology from University of Zaragoza and has been living and working as a lecturer in Spanish language in Germany since 1985.^[3] His 2006 novel Fuegos con limón described his youthful experiences in Grupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte, a surrealist group which published a magazine between 1978 and 1981.^[4] He won the Premio Tusquets de Novela in 2011 for his novel Años lentos,^[5] and the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2015 for Ávidas pretensiones.^[6]

Works

• Fuegos con limón (Fires with Lemon) (won the Ramón Gómez de le Serna prize in 1997).^[3]
• Los ojos vacíos (Empty Eyes) (Euskadi Prize in 2001)
• El Trompetista del Utopia (The Trompetist of Utopia) (made into a film called Under the Stars)
• Bambi sin sombra (Shadowless Bambi)
• El artista y su cadaver (The Artist and his Corpse) (short prose writings)
• Vida de un piojo llamado Matías (Life of a louse called Matias) (children's book)
• No ser no duele (Not being does not hurt) (short stories)
• Los peces de la amargura (The Fish of Bitterness) (short stories; won the Mario Varga Llosa NH prize in 2006). Real Academia Prize, and Dulce Chacón Prize.^[3]
• Ávidas pretensiones (Avid Pretensions) (2014)
• Patria (Homeland) (2016). National Critics' Prize and National Prize for Narrative Writing.^[3]
• Autorretrato sin mí (Self-portrait without me) (2018)
• Los vencejos (The swifts) (2021)
• El niño (The child) (2024)