Lourdes Oñederra
Miren Lourdes Oñederra | |
|---|---|
 Lourdes Oñederra in 2013 | |
| Born | 9 June 1958 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Miren Lourdes Oñederra Olaizola (born 9 June 1958) is a Basque writer and professor.
Life
Oñederra was born in San Sebastián in 1957. She studied for her first degree in Spain before taking her masters at the University of Iowa. She returned to the Basque country to take her doctorate in philology supervised by Koldo Mitxelena. She was appointed a professor in her home town in 1982.
In 1987 she published her first novel And the woman said to the serpent and this was successful and received a number of awards including the Basque Government Prize for Literature in 2000.[1] The book has been translated into Spanish, English and Russian.
In 2014 she was a Professor at the University of the Basque Country.
References
- ^ Lourdes Oñederra, euskaltzaindia.eus
  | This Basque biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
  | This article about a Spanish writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Orphaned articles from December 2014
- 1958 births
- Living people
- People from San Sebastián
- University of Iowa alumni
- University of the Basque Country faculty
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
- 20th-century women writers
- Spanish women novelists
- Basque novelists
- Basque women writers
- Basque people stubs
- Spanish writer stubs