Edurne Portela

PhD in Hispanic Literature from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, United States. She was a full literature professor at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania until 2015. As part of her academic research, she has published numerous articles and the essay Displaced Memories: The Poetics of Trauma in Argentine Women Writers. In 2016, Galaxia Gutenberg published her El eco de los disparos: Cultura y memoria de la violencia, an essay promoting culture as a tool for settling the Basque Country’s violent past.

In September 2017, she published he first novel Mejor la ausencia (Galaxia Gutenberg), which explores the post-industrial Basque Country of the eighties and won the Madrid Association of Bookshops’ 2018 Prize for the best fiction book of the year. In 2019, the same company published her second novel, Formas de estar lejos. She made, along with, José Ovejero, the documentary Vida y ficción (2017). She regularly contributes to the main Spanish newspapers. With Los ojos cerrados (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2021) she won the Basque Country’s Literature Prize in Spanish. Her latest book is Maddi y las fronteras (Galaxia Gutenberg).