Juan María Lekuona

Who was Juan María Lekuona?

Juan María Lekuona Berasategi was a Basque poet in euskera.

He was Manuel Lekuona's nephew. In 1953 he became a priest. After his residence in Rome, where he defended his thesis, he worked in Añorga, near Donostia. He read Gabriel Aresti's books in those years and that is why his work was very orientated to social fight in the beginning, as we can see in Mindura gaur, his first book.

He was the first president of EIZIE in 1987.

His studies about bersolarism are very important and he became a member of Euskaltzaindia in 1988. He won several prices in life, like two Premios Euskadi de Literatura, in 1979 and 1990.