The first Basque book came home for the holidays

Memorial to Bernart Etxepare in Duzunaritze. Photo: Iñaki LL, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Author Bernard Etxepare had to go to Bordeaux, France in 1545 to get his book printed in Euskara. Today, this book, Linguae Vasconum Primitiae, lives in Paris.

Read our story about its recent exhibition in Baiona, Iparralde and how a group of activists is trying to keep the book in the Basque Country.

I wrote this piece for my column in Euskal Kazeta, the US Basque diaspora newspaper. Read the full article.

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