PORTRAITS OF WOMEN IN “NO SOY YO” BY KARMELE JAIO
PORTRAITS OF WOMEN IN “NO SOY YO” BY KARMELE JAIO

Summary/Abstract: Born in 1970, the Basque writer Karmele Jaio is considered in the present as one of the most famous women writers from Spain. Until the present, she is known in the literary landscape as the author of three story books and four novels that made her famous not only in Spain, but also abroad. The present article aims to analyze “No soy yo”, a collection of 14 short stories which was published the first time in 2004 in the Basque language, the author 's native language. Karmele Jaio writes in Basque and also translates her work in Spanish. In 2014, she translated her short stories into Spanish. All the stories are about women. Karmele Jaio centers her interest in describing the feelings and the experiences of middle aged women that hardly find their place in a society that still blames old age.

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