Katixa Agirre
Katixa Agirre Miguelez is a Spanish writer of Basque origin.[1] She was born in Gasteiz in 1981. She studied audiovisual communication at UPV/EHU, graduating in 2003. She obtained a master's degree in screenwriting, followed by a PhD in audiovisual communication, also from UPV/EHU, receiving her doctorate in 2010. Her thesis analyzed the representations of the Lolita myth in Hollywood films. She then did postdoctoral work, including stints at QMUL and University of East Anglia in the UK. Since 2013, she has taught at the Universidad del Pais Vasco.
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Agirre is also an accomplished writer, who publishes mainly in her native Basque language. Her books include the short story collectoins Sua falta zaigu (2007) and Habitat (2009) and the children's books Paularen seigarren atzamarra, Ez naiz sirena bat, eta zer? and Patzikuren problemak. She writes for media outlets such as Diario de Noticias de Álava, Deia, Aizu! and Argia. In 2015, she published her first novel Atertu arte Itxaron? (Elkar, 2015), which won the Premio 111 Akademia. A road novel, this book has been translated into Spanish, Danish and Bulgarian. In 2018, she published another novel Amek ez dute (Elkar).[2][3]
In 2020, she was named as one of the most promising young writers in Spain by the 10 de 30 project of the AECID.
References
- Lacey, Catherine (2022-07-07). "The Cultural Dread of the Bad Mother". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- "Libros de Katixa Agirre Miguelez. Biografía y bibliografía". www.txalaparta.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- "Profesorado - Doctorado - UPV/EHU". Doctorado (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-16.