Huaristi, Hon

At the age of 11, he began studying Basque on his own, at the age of 13 he left his parental family, lived with his father's parents. At sixteen joined ETA . The university was close to the Trotskyists . Persecuted by the police, he moved to Seville , where he studied Romance philology. He defended his thesis at the private university of Deusto (a suburb of Bilbao). During this period, several times went to prison. After 1974, he retired from active political activity. In 1980, he joined the Spanish Communist Party at the time of its rapprochement with the left forces of the Basque Country, shared social democratic positions, opposing the ideas and practices of armed violence adopted by the terrorist wing of ETA. In 1986, he quit KPI, in 1987 he joined the socialist workers' party .

He professes Judaism , speaks with articles about anti-Semitism .

Headed the Department of Spanish Philology at the University of the Basque Country , he taught at the University of Valencia , New York University, Mexico City and other universities. He was the director of the National Library of Spain ( 2001 - 2004 ), headed the Cervantes Institute , and since 2005 headed the Department of Spanish Literature at the University of Alcala de Henares . Since 2009 - General Director of the Council for Higher Education and Science of the Autonomous Community of Madrid .

As a poet, he was influenced by the writings of the natives of the Basque Country, Miguel de Unamuno and Blas de Otero , the eminent Basque poet Gabriel Aresti , as well as the poetry of W. H. Oden, who wrote in Spanish. Hoaristi's poetry is distinguished by rich intertextual connections, irony, colloquial speech and everyday life. He writes poems in Spanish, an essay, mainly on the problems of the Basque national self-determination and cultural traditions of the Basque Country, in Basque and Spanish. He owns the transcriptions of Basque folklore, a number of autobiographical works, translations from Spanish into Basque and from Basque into Spanish.

Poems

• Diario de un poeta recién cansado ( 1986 ; the title is an ironic reference to the famous collection of poems by H. R. Jimenez Diario de un poeta recién casado )
• Suma de varia intención ( 1987 )
• Arte de marear ( 1988 )
• Los paisajes domésticos ( 1992 )
• Mediodía ( 1993 )
• Tiempo desapacible ( 1996 )
• Poesía reunida (1986–1999) ( 2001 , collection of poems)
• Prosas en verso ( 2002 )
• Viento sobre las lóbregas colinas ( 2008 )

Essays and Other Essays

• Euskararen Ideologiak ( 1976 )
• El linaje de Aitor. La invención de la tradición vasca ( 1984 )
• Literatura vasca ( 1987 )
• Arte en el País Vasco (1987, co-authored)
• Vicente de Arana ( 1990 )
• Vestigios de Babel. Para una arqueología de los nacionalismos españoles ( 1992 )
• Auto de Terminación: raza, nación y violencia en el País Vasco ( 1994 , co-authored)
• La Europa (cultural) de los pueblos: voz y forma (1994, in collaboration)
• El chimbo expiatorio (la invención de la tradición bilbaína, 1876–1939) (1994)
• El bucle melancólico. Historias de nacionalistas vascos ( 1997 )
• Sacra nemesis. Nuevas historias de nacionalistas vascos ( 1999 )
• Sermo humilis: poesía y poética ( 1999 )
• El bosque originario ( 2000 )
• La tribu atribulada. El Nacionalismo Vasco explicado a mi padre ( 2002 )
• El reino del ocaso ( 2004 )
• Cambio de destino ( 2006 , autobiography)
• La caza salvaje ( 2007 , novel)

• Modern Spanish poetry. St. Petersburg: The Cervantes Foundation, 1998

Winner of the National Prize for Literature, the National Prize for Essay (both 1998 ), Fastenrath Prize ( 2000 ) and other awards. Order of Merit for the Spanish Constitution, Order of Alfonso the Wise .

• Ferrari MB Jon Juaristi o la inocencia fingida. Mar del Plata: Martín, 2004

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