Maialen Berasategi graduated from UPV/EHU in Translation & Interpreting. She currently works as a translator and proofreader for Berria newspaper.
She translated RebeccaWest’s “The Return of the Soldier” (Soldaduaren itzulera) for the Literatura Unibertsala
collection, her first solo literary translation.
Berasategi received the Donostia Kultura Poetry Award in 2021.
She won the 2023 Basque Translation Award with Joxemari Berasategi for thebook Paradisua by Abdulrazak Gurnah.