Katixa Agirre

Katixa Agirre is a Basque-language writer. She holds a PhD in audiovisual communication and is a professor at the University of the Basque Country. She has published the story collections Sua falta zaigu (2007) and Habitat (2009) and the children's books Paularen seigarren atzamarra, Ez naiz sirena bat, eta zer? and Patzikuren problemak. She has written columns for the Diario de Noticias de Álava, Deia, Aizu! and Argia. In 2015, she published her first novel, Atertu arte Itxaron1​ (Elkar, 2015). This road novel won the 111 Akademia prize.