Auñamendi Eusko EntziklopediaFund Bernardo Estornés Lasa

Writer and journalist born in Oiartzun (Gipuzkoa) on 1 August 1928 and died in Donostia on 9 October 2025.

He was actively involved in the cultural life of San Sebastian in the 1960s and 1970s, writing numerous articles and reports in Spanish, as well as book and film reviews in magazines and newspapers. He was also a pelota chronicler and regular lecturer in San Sebastian and some towns in Gipuzkoa. He was a member of the editorial board and contributor to Noray magazine (1963) and co-founder and editor of Kurpil magazine (1973-1977). He was also one of the founders of the City of San Sebastián Prize, which he won in 1968 with the story Al terminar la fiesta (When the Party Ends). With his unpublished novel Los zamuras, the author won the Puente Colgante Prize in Portugalete. His realistic literature cultivates a certain social criticism.

His literary work, realistic in nature and socially critical, includes titles such as Los pecados de la calle (The Sins of the Street, 1956), El carrousel de la vida (The Carousel of Life, 1958), Cuentos con hombre (Stories with Men, 1962), La mujer de Lot (Lot's Wife, 1977), El ojo insomne: relatos (The less Eye: Stories, 1986), and Crimes in the Basque Country (1987).

He was also a pelota chronicler and regular lecturer in San Sebastián and other towns in Gipuzkoa, noted for his talks on literary, philosophical and cultural topics. Aizarna also contributed in Basque and Spanish, with poetry and other writings. He died in Donostia at the age of 97.

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