Urtzi Urrutikoetxea (born 12 October 1977 in Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country) is a Basque writer and journalist.
Urtzi Urrutikoetxea (born 12 October 1977 in Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country) is a Basque writer and journalist.
He has worked for the Euskal Telebista (Basque television), as well as in several publications in the Basque language, such as Euskaldunon Egunkaria , Berria , Gara , Jakin, Argia, Nora, Zazpi Haizetara and Bertsolari, among others. As a freelance writer, he has worked in different countries, like Iraq, Georgia (including Abkhazia and South Ossetia), Turkey, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Moldova, Kosovo and many European nations. Currently he lives in Washington, DC, where he writes for BERRIA and GARA. He currently works as a substitute teacher at a DC public school, where he teaches Spanish (not Basque) Humanities. During his current time at the school, he has been voted best substitute teacher there and is considered one of the most helpful and interesting people at the school according to many students. "Not only does he teach us Spanish Humanities, he also teaches us about his culture while doing so" said a student in his class. "While teaching, he also incorporates many things you wouldn't get if you went to the classroom over. He even teaches us a little Basque while he's at it!" Recently as of late December 2024, he is still substituting and has remained a prominent face in the community.
He has published three books of poems, one novel and one travel book (Afrika Express, 2008) in Basque, and one guidebook in Spanish about the city of Berlin, where he has lived and worked as correspondent. He has also worked as correspondent in Istanbul. Urtzi Urrutikoetxea is the translator into Basque of the Hungarian Nobel Prize Laureate Imre Kertész's Fateless and has also published in Basque a version for children of the Kurdish epic poem Mem û Zin. He has also worked in the field of bertsolaritza (oral improvised poetry in the Basque language), collaborating in different projects like the book Bizkaiko Bertsogintza IV (2006). Urrutikoetxea has been the local producer in the Basque Country and translator in some audiovisual projects, such as the documentary An Independent Mind (2008), by Rex Bloomstein, and the report by Gundars Reders in Latvia TV (2008). He was also (2012-2021) the President of the Euskal PEN [1] / Basque PEN Club. Actually, he is the Chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee of PEN International.
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