Writer born in Ataun (Gipuzkoa) in 1949, and resident in Beasain.
As a child he almost completely lost his Basque language, but he recovered it on his own and also worked as a teacher at a gau-eskola. He currently works as a draughtsman. He is the author of the novels Udazkena (urtearen lehena eta azkena) , winner of the 1991 City of Iran Prize (Kutxa, 1992), and Esker mila, Marlowe (Erein, 1996). The first of the novels is a love story, and tells of the reunion, after many years, of a man and a woman who have been close friends. The protagonist, Amaia, now married and with two children, reads that her old friend, Andoni, has won a literary prize and decides to meet him.
The narrator speaks in the third person and the action takes place in various cities in the Basque Country. Esker mila, Marlowe , on the other hand, follows the canons of the American crime novel. The protagonist is an ordinary man who one day loses his brother, apparently due to a drug overdose, but there are clues that suggest it is a murder. Xabier, the main character, decides to investigate on his own, with the help of the literary character Marlowe, since he has read many of Chandler's books. Xabier turns out to be as ironic and cynical, and at heart as romantic, as the Marlowe in the books.