Idoia Estornés Zubizarreta

Idoia Estornés Zubizarreta
Idoia Estornes (2008)
Born	28 November 1940 Santiago, Chile
Occupation	historian writer
Citizenship	Spanish
Alma mater	University of Navarra
Notable works	Cómo pudo pasarnos esto. Crónica de una chica de los 60.
Notable awards	Premio Literario de Ensayo Euskadi Premios Euskadi de Literatura
Relatives	Bernardo Estornés Lasa & Ignacia Zubizarreta (parents)

Idoia Estornés Zubizarreta (Santiago de Chile, 28 November 1940) is a Chilean-born Spanish historian and writer. She was honored with the "Premio Literario de Ensayo Euskadi" in 1988 and the Premios Euskadi de Literatura [es] in 2014.

Idoia Estornés Zubizarreta was born in Santiago de Chile in 1940, into a Basque nationalist family exiled due to the Civil War. Her parents are Bernardo Estornés Lasa and Ignacia Zubizarreta. In 1958, she settled in San Sebastián, where, in 1961, she began her degree in Philosophy and Letters. Between 1962 and 1966, she completed her studies at the University of Navarra, where she later obtained a doctorate in history in 1988.^[1]

In 1976, she published her first work, Carlismo y abolición foral. 1876–1976 (Carlism and the abolition of the charters. 1876–1976) (Auñamendi Encyclopedia, San Sebastián, 1976). Subsequently, she has been the editorial director of the Basque Encyclopaedic Dictionary by Auñamendi and a contributor to various Spanish and French press. Between 2000 and 2006, she also directed the update of the Illustrated General Encyclopaedia of the Basque Country, devoting herself exclusively to it.^[1]

In 2013, she published her work, Cómo pudo pasarnos esto. Crónica de una chica de los 60. (How could this have happened to us. Chronicle of a girl from the 60s.) (Erein, San Sebastián, 2013, pp. 572), which was a finalist for the 2014 National Essay Award and received the 2014 Euskadi Literature Award, in the category of literature in Spanish.^[2]

• Premio Literario de Ensayo Euskadi, 1988.^[3]
• Premios Euskadi de Literatura, 2014, in the category of literature in Spanish, and finalist of the 2014 Premio Nacional de Ensayo (National Essay Award), for her work, Cómo pudo pasarnos esto. Crónica de una chica de los 60.^[4]

• Carlismo y abolición foral. 1876–1976. (Auñamendi, San Sebastián, 1976, 250 p.)
• Qué son los partidos abertzales (San Sebastián, 1977, 115 p.)
• La Sociedad de Estudios Vascos 1918–1936. Aportación de Eusko-Ikaskuntza a la cultura vasca. (Eusko Ikaskuntza, San Sebastián, 1983, 300 p.)
• La construcción de una nacionalidad vasca. El autonomismo de Eusko-Ikaskuntza (1918–1931) (tesis doctoral), (Eusko Ikaskuntza, San Sebastián, 1990, 728 p.)
• Cómo pudo pasarnos esto. Crónica de una chica de los 60. (Erein, San Sebastián, 2013, 572 p.)
• Cuando Marx visitó Loyola. Un sindicato vasco durante el periodo franquista. (Erein, San Sebastián, 2017, 327 p).

• "Tardamos en darnos cuenta de que ETA no era tan Robin Hood", interview in El Mundo (24 November 2014) (in Spanish)
• "Entrevista a Idoia Estornés", interview in the cultural magazine Galde (28 June 2015) (in Spanish)
• "Ajuste de memoria en la Euskadi de los últimos 60 años", article in El Correo (4 June 2016) (in Spanish)