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Leire Vargas

Translator, writer, and bertsolari.

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Born in Durango, Biscay, in 2002, Leire Vargas combines writing with oral improvisation. She is a member of the Bertso Eskola de Durangaldea and she participates actively in the oral tradition of Bertsolaritza. As a writer, her first book, Dena ametsa den irudipena [The fantasy that it’s all a dream] (Elkar, 2021), won the Kutxa Ciudad de Irun Prize for poetry in Basque. In 2024, she published her second collection of poems, Bihotz-museo bat [A Heart-museum] (Elkar).