Obabakoak

Obabakoak

Author

Bernardo Atxaga

Language

Basque

Year

1988

First Pub.

Spain

Genre

Novel

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Obabakoak is a 1988 novel by the Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga. The title can be translated as "Stories from Obaba". The book won the National Literature Prize for Narrative. It is the most internationally successful book in Basque and has been translated into numerous languages. The original Basque version was published by Editorial Erein in 1988, and the author's own Spanish version was published by Ediciones B in 1989. An English translation by Margaret Jull Costa based on the Spanish version was published in 1992.