Fernando Aramburu (San Sebastián, 1959) is a Spanish writer.[1] He is the author of the novelPatria (English title: "Homeland"), which deals with terrorism in theBasque 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]
He graduated in Spanish Philology fromUniversity of Zaragoza and has been living and working as a lecturer inSpanish language inGermany since 1985.[3] His 2006 novelFuegos con limón described his youthful experiences inGrupo CLOC de Arte y Desarte, a surrealist group which published a magazine between 1978 and 1981.[4] He won thePremio Tusquets de Novela in 2011 for his novelAños lentos,[5] and thePremio Biblioteca Breve in 2015 forÁvidas pretensiones.[6]
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 calledUnder 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)
(es) Zaldua, Iban (https://vientosur.info/ 22 March 2017), «La literatura, ¿sirve para algo? Una crítica de Patria, de Fernando Aramburu». Retrieved 25/08/2018.
