José Andrés Alvaro Ocáriz is an educator, writer and cultural disseminator born in San Sebastián on 25 July 1962.
He has a degree in Hispanic Philology and has studied Teaching in the speciality of French Philology. For twenty-five years he has taught in various schools and institutes in Aragon, Catalonia, Navarre and the Basque Country. He has held posts in the Department of Education and Culture of the Government of Navarre and was a member of the Navarre Council of the Basque Language.
Creator of the publishing imprint Desiréediciones and director of the Asociación Cultural Literatura y Sociedad, he is the author of eighteen books: Celaya, esencial (2011); Antonio Tovar, el filólogo que encontró el idioma de la paz (2012); Luis Mariano, cien años, cent ans (2014); El Gran Capitán (2015); Sebastián Iradier. Si a tu ventana llega una paloma (2016); El Madrid de Blas de Otero (2016); La flecha que me asignó Cupido (2017); Los relatos navarros de Francisco Navarro Villoslada (2018); a critical edition of Trafalgar (2018); Yo, el conde de Aranda (2019); Vasco Núñez de Balboa, el español que descubrió un océano (2019); Tarás Shevchenko, la voz de la Ucrania libre (2019); Cuatro escritoras, cuatro miradas de mujer (2020); Churruca. Historical praise (2020); The cherry of Milagro in gastronomy (2020); Lesya Ukrainka, the soul of Ukraine (2020); Diego de León, Count of Belascoain: the last romantic (2021); Ramón de Campoamor, poet and politician (2021).
To date, he has given some two hundred and fifty lectures and poetry recitals both nationally and internationally. He has also participated as a jury member in literary prizes and collaborated as an article writer in the media and magazines.
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