Overview

• Xabier Olarra received the National Prize for the Body of a Translator for a career the jury said enriched and normalized Euskera across social spheres.
• Marian Ochoa de Eribe won the National Prize for Best Translation for her Spanish rendering of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Theodoros, marking the first Romanian-to-Spanish winner.
• Each prize is worth €30,000, according to Tuesday’s jury announcement.
• Jurors highlighted Olarra’s four decades of interdisciplinary work and his pioneering role in bringing crime fiction into Basque.
• Olarra’s career milestones include co-founding the Igela publishing house in 1989, while the panel praised Ochoa de Eribe’s meticulous documentation and linguistic richness.