An arts graduate, at the present time she is permanent lecturer in the Didactics of Literature at the University School for Teachers in Donostia (University of the Basque Country). She has worked for numerous magazines and newspapers in the Basque Country, but her creative work has focused especially on children’s literature in Basque. She has written 30 books, most of which have been translated into Spanish, Catalan and Galician, as well as other foreign languages: English, French, German, Greek, Arabic..., which is why she is considered to be one of the most internationally renowned authors currently writing in Basque. Among the literary prizes that she has won is the National Young People’s and Children’s Literature Prize 2003 for the book, “Krokodriloa ohe azpian (A crocodile under the bed),” awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture.