Elkar 2021 281 Pages Original title: Begiak zabalduko zaizkizue. Literaturari buruzko elkarrizketa bat ISBN: 978-84-1360-144-1 Translated into: click here
"Your eyes will be opened", said the serpent to Eve, and, "and you will be like God, knowing good and evil". And like the serpent, the author of this literary essay invites readers, critics and writers to read with their eyes open to know what is good and bad literature, to distinguish between well and poorly written books, and to form their own literary criteria. And she does so with passion and knowledge, avoiding academic language and establishing an exciting dialogue with readers, whom she constantly encourages to write, read and enjoy everything that literature has to offer, as entertainment, as a tool for self-knowledge, as a window to reality and as a way to connect with humanity. In addition to the literary exercise, the author also analyses the Basque literary system, denouncing its shortcomings and baseness, but underlining its enormous possibilities and infinite powers.
Irati Jimenez (Mundaka, 1977) has been a journalist in press, television and radio. She was the last director of the cultural magazine Nabarra and is now a specialist in a communication and content creation consultancy for the Internet. Since she published Bat, bi, Manchester (One. Two, Manchester) in 2006, a short novel awarded the Augustin Zubikarai Prize, her short stories, essays and novels have continued to win awards and recognition as important as the Donostia Hiria Prize in the short story category and the Miguel de Unamuno Prize for essays in Basque. She also won, among other awards, the Beterriko Saria Prize for best book of the year in Basque for the novel Nora ez dakizun hori (What You Don’t Know Nora), which has been published in Spain and Chile and has been translated into Italian and Russian. With her latest published work, Begiak zabalduko zaizkizue, she was awarded the Euskadi Prize in the category of essays in Basque.
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