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Miren Lourdes Oñederra Olaizola (born 9 June 1958) is a Basque writer and professor.

Miren Lourdes Oñederra
Lourdes Oñederra in 2013
Born	9 June 1958 San Sebastián
Nationality	Spanish

Life

Oñederra was born in San Sebastián in 1958. She studied for her first degree in Spain before taking her masters at the University of Iowa. She returned to the Basque country to take her doctorate in philology supervised by Koldo Mitxelena. She was appointed a professor in her home town in 1982.

In 1999 she published her first novel And the woman said to the serpent and this was successful and received a number of awards including the Basque Government Prize for Literature in 2000.[1] The book has been translated into Spanish, English and Russian.

In 2014 she was a Professor at the University of the Basque Country.

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