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Donostia-San Sebastian.  The poet and bertsolari, Jose Mendiague (Aldude, 1845) became a much-loved character in the South American Diaspora.  He lived in Argentina, Chile and finally settled in Uruguay and did a remarkable job spreading the culture and reviving the language in the Basque community.  Now EuskalKultura.com, together with Aldudarrak Bideo is raffling five DVDs of the pastoral on him to our readers in the Basque Country as well as in the Diaspora.  

If you would like one, please send us your information (name, address and phone number) to:  info@euskalkulutra.com before May 14 at 11:50 p.m. (continental European time).  The results of the drawing will be published on May 16 on EuskalKultura.com.

The author of the Jose Mendiague pastorala is musician and creator Jean Bordaxar from Zuberoa and his hometown, Arrokiaga, was the scene of the pastoral on July 29, 2012.

Jose Mendiague is a character of great importance in the Diaspora in South America, but was, however, rediscovered by many in the Basque Country in 1992 when the academic Piarres Xarriton gathered and published his complete work.  Even though he was born in Aldude, Mendiague lived until the age of 18 in Hazparne, until he left for America. He lived in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.  He wrote in Basque and some of his works have been published in magazines like Euskal Erria and Haitza in Montevideo, as well as in Eskualduna and Eskualdun Ona in Baiona, among others.