Euskal Idazleen Elkartea

BASQUE version

Organisation
A brief history of Basque Literature
Writers
Extracts from writer's works
International relations

'Euskaraz bai’ adierazpenarekin bat egiteko lotura

A brief history of Basque literature19th century

introduction
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
from 1975 to the present day

introduction
Development of the literature in the Southern Basque Country
Literary revival in the Northern Basque Country
Popular poetry
1876 generation

Basque literature saw a revival in the Northern Basque Country in the 1870s and 1880s. Poetry circles were held with the help of money donated by Antoine D’Abbadie, and L. L. Bonaparte promoted the analysis and cultivation of the Basque language. Hiribarren’s poetry anthology Eskualdunak and Daskonaguerre’s novel Atehka gaitzeko oihartzunak belong to that era, as do the prose writers Arbelbide, Lapeyre, Lapitz and Joannategi and the poets Elizanburu and Adema. Eskualduna, the first weekly journal in Basque, also dates back to that time. In the words of Villasante, this was the “golden age” in the literature of the Northern Basque Country.