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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
59, 1999
Basque Studies Ph.D. Student
Awarded Literary Prize
Javier Cillero Goiriastuena, a Ph.D. student in the
Basque Studies Program, recently won a major literary prize
in the Basque Country: the annual City of San
Sebastián Literary Prize for Basque Theater. His
entry was a play entitled “Uztailaren laua, Renon”
(The Fourth of July in Reno). One of the judges for the
competition described Cillero’s play as “a simple
but intense work that tells the story of two people in
America, in the city of Reno, Nevada, where there is a
considerable settlement of Basque
immigrants.”
Cillero, a native of Bilbao in the Basque region of
Spain, spent several years at the University of Nevada, Reno
as an exchange scholar and graduate student. He currently
resides in Geneva, Switzerland where he is preparing his
dissertation on Basque literature.
As a first-place winner, Cillero received a trophy
and a cash prize of $8,000. Awards were also given for
Spanish theater and for Basque and Spanish short
stories.
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