Jon Mirande Explained

Jon Mirande
Birth Date:11 October 1925
Occupation:Linguist, translator, poet and writer
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Resting Place:Cimetière parisien de Thiais
Language:French
Spanish
English
Basque
Cornish
Breton
Education:Lycée Arago
Pseudonym:Jon Chaho

Jon Mirande (11 October 1925 – 28 December 1972) was a Basque writer, poet and translator who lived in Paris. Mirande exerted a great literary influence in the 1970s and 1980s, writing in Basque literary and cultural magazines as well as Breton ones. He wrote poetry and short stories in his youth, and essays and novels in his later years. Mirande was a nationalist and believed in the value of ethnicity, especially in the Basque language, but he was also pagan and laid claim to the values of paganism and of the ancient Basques.

Mirande managed to incorporate Basque poetry into the modern European poetry landscape through an aestheticism of symbolist characteristics indebted to Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe. In his poetic works, Mirande covered topics never before dealt with by Basque poetry: prostitution, alcohol, pedophilic sex and so on.

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