Mikel Antza recounts the Basque conflict in the essay book 'Rice with Water'
- Mikel Antza has presented in the book Arroz Urez with the editorial Txalaparta, a literary essay that can also be a chronicle.
Mikel Antza has published the first book that saw the light after being released in 2019 and returning to Euskal Herria, starting a new period in his literary facet, according to the Donostian writer. In the essay Rice with Water, he has written through the literature "a birth and an end" of the Basque Country ta Askatasuna, his account of that time.
The story begins with Txabi Etxebarrieta and ends with "tia Luzi", a story in which the reader will find references of numerous events and people, both known and unknown, among which the case of Burgos of 1970 stands out. It is precisely half a century since the process that shocked the bases of Franco was carried out, and Antza has interviewed several people involved, whose testimony is also indirectly shown in the book.
In a cross-sectional and cross-sectional way, therefore, this book also includes those who have not yet been told and have been invisible about the Basque conflict and the recent history of Euskal Herria. In the presentation on Tuesday in Pamplona, the author has made it clear that his intention is not to enter the "battle" of the story of what happened, a story that, in his opinion, "we have to write from within".
Antza began his literary career in 1979 in Susa magazine and worked in ARGIA. Following the flight of Joseba Sarrionandia and Iñaki Pikabea in Martutene in 1985, Joseba had to leave Euskal Herria and was arrested in 2004 in the Occitana town of Saliese. He has written narrative books, theater and poetry, such as the collection of poems Ametsak zain (Susa), written in the cell for ten years and published in 2015.
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