Marijane Minaberri

Marijane Minaberri or Marie-Jeanne Minaberry (7 September 1926 – 23 February 2017) was a Basque author and radio broadcaster. She began writing articles for herself at the age of 20 and then worked as Banca's town hall municipal secretary for a decade. Minaberri then taught 10 and 11-year-old students at Bayonne's Saint Louis de Gonzague church before beginning a broadcasting career on Radio Côte Basque, Gure Irratia and Lapurdi Irratia. She wrote a series of poems and children's stories in both Basque in French and was a member of the Euskaltzaindia. Minaberri is considered a pioneer in Basque radio broadcasting and researchers consider two of her works the beginning of learning of Basque children's literature.

Personal background

On 7 September 1926, Minaberri was born in Banca, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Baigorri Valley of the Lower Navarre region. in Bordeaux. When she was 22 years old, Minaberri started working as Braca's town hall municipal secretary for the following decade. Minaberri firstly wrote a series of poems before turning to children's stories and she published most of her poems in the Herria, Gure Herria, Almanaka and Pan-pin magazines. Her first two poems, Amañokantua and Esku miresgarria, were published in 1960. In 1963, Minaberri authored her first book of short stories called Itchulingo anderea (Goiztiri),