biography
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Ormaechea, Nicolás de
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pseudonym Orixe
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pronunciation:
[ormaaychaya]
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| lived:
| (1888–1961)
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| biography:
| Basque novelist and poet. His chief work is the long poem Euskaldunak, written in the 1930s but not published until 1950, which is a chronicle of the Basque people and their land. His fine translations into Basque include works by St Augustine and the Lazarillo de Tormes. |
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