Biography

This web bears the name of Elías Amézaga, the eminent Basque writer who has written more about Basques than anyone else in the world. The poet Mario ángel Marrodán used this very title for his book about Elías Amézaga with a prologue written by Jorge Oteiza, the distinguished Basque sculptor.

As a student he contributed to newspapers such as Hierro in Bilbao and La Voz de Asturias in Oviedo, and later on he wrote for Deia, La Gaceta del Norte, El Diario Vasco, La Hoja del Lunes of Bilbao, El Correo, Diario 16, Egin, Muga, La Voz de Vizcaya, Boletín de la Institución Sancho el Sabio, Arbola, Pérgola, Letras de Deusto, Historia Contemporánea, Kultura, El Mundo del País Vasco, El Periódico de Álava.

Elías Amézaga has spent much of his life in reclusion in his unique tower-house-library in Getxo, Biscay, where he writes. Other times he is browsing through libraries and scrutinizing archives in Madrid (San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Academia de la Historia...), Paris, Amsterdam, Baugancy, Coimbra, Salamanca, and Simancas in search of the data for his writings.