Andoni Egaña
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Andoni Egaña Makazaga (Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, 2 October 1961) is a Basque bertsolari and writer. He studied Basque Philology in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
He started singing at the age of 17, and his first appearance in public was in a wedding in the Salegi Restaurant, in the town of Itziar.[1] In 1982 he took part for the first time in a bertsolari championship, the lizardi contest in Zarautz[2] He won the National Championship of Versolaris of the Basque Country, maximum competition of the discipline, in four occasions, having the record of victories that a bertsolari has achieved in history: he was finalist in the years 1986 and 1989, and won in the editions of 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005.[3] In 2009 he achieved fourth place, yielding the chapela (a hat that is given as trophy to the winner of the competition) to Maialen Lujanbio, first woman in obtaining the award.[4]
Bibliography[5]
Narration
- Sokratikoek ere badute ama (The Socratics also have mother)(1989, Erein)
Novel
- Pausoa noiz luzatu (When to speed up) (1998, EEF-Alberdania)
Essay
- Zozoak beleari (1997, Alberdania) (with Jon Sarasua)
- Hogeita bina (Twenty two for each one) (2004, Hariadna)
Children's and juvenile literature
- Zaudete geldi pixka batean (1999, Elkar)
- Mendian (In the mountain) (2000, Alberdania)
- Niri ez zait futbola gustatzen, eta zer? (I don't like football, and what?)(2000, Elkarlanean)
Biography
- Basarri (1999, Sendoa)
- Imanol Urbieta, Luzea da bidea (Imanol Urbieta, long is the way)(2002, Ibaizabal)
Articles
- Aitaren batean (In an instant) (1990, Elkar)
References
- ↑ Egaña's biography in BDB bertsolaritza's data base .http://bdb.bertsozale.eus/en/web/haitzondo/view/602-andoni-egaa
- ↑ Interview with Andoni Egaña in Oral Tradition magazine. http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/22ii/12_goikoetxea.pdf
- ↑ Short article about the championship in Oral Tradition magazine http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/22ii/2_foley.pdf
- ↑ (in Basque) Sailkapena (Bertsolari Txapelketa Nagusia, Bertsozale Elkartea)
- ↑ Egaña's literary works http://zubitegia.armiarma.eus/?i=172
External links
- Andoni Egaña Makazaga (Encyclopaedia Auñamendi)
- (In Basque) Andoni Egaña (Literaturaren Zubitegia, Armiarma publishing house)