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Xabier Lete

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Xabier Lete

Xabier Lete Bergaretxe (Oiartzun, Gipuzkoa, April 5, 1944 - San Sebastian, December 4, 2010) was a Basque writer, poet, singer and politician. We started to write from an early age and his published articles in the magazine "Zeruko Argiak" became quite usual. In 1965 he created a band of Basque Music with Mikel Laboa, Benito Lertxundi, Jotxean Artze, Jose Angel Irigarai and Lourdes Iriondo. The was given the name of "Ez Dok Amairu", which disappeared in 1972, even though Xabier Lete kept on singing with Lourdes Iriondo, who, by that time, was his wife.

In 1968 Lete published his first book of poems and he won the Basque Literature Award October 27 in 2009 for his last book of poems "Egunsentiaren esku izotzak". He received a hard blow in 2005 when his wife Lourdes died for a disease. He was


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