As the jury has explained, the prize has been for "a teacher of poetic language." He added that the objectives are “the aliteration with a symbolist echo, the nonsense humor, the absurd, the Rodarian fantasy and the echoes of Basque orality”.
The writer of Aduna (Gipuzkoa) Juan Kruz Igerabide is a prolific author of literature. He has written above all novel, poetry and story. He has already published many books for children and young people.