FUNDACIÓN VÍCTIMAS DEL TERRORISMO 96 - ENGLISH

The date coincided with the tenth an- niversary of the Memorial’s launch and the publication of Patria , Fernando Aramburu’s novel that marked a tur- ning point in the literary portrayal of victims of terrorism. During the pre- sentation, Florencio Domínguez highli- ghted the work’s extraordinary inter- national reach, with translations into 35 languages, including Korean. “Who has ever seen a book about ETA trans- EXHIBITION OPEN UNTIL 1 NOVEMBER AT THE MEMORIAL TELLING THE WOUND: LITERATURE PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF ETA’S VICTIMS On 21 July, the Memorial Centre for the Victims of Terrorism opened Narrar la herida. Las víctimas de ETA y la literatura at its Vitoria headquarters. The exhibition was presented by its curator and University of Navarra lecturer, Roncesvalles Labiano ; the Memorial’s Director, Florencio Domínguez ; and writers Fernando Aramburu, Luisa Etxenike and Irati Goikoetxea . lated into Albanian, Arabic, Estonian, Japanese and another 30 languages, as Patria has been?” he asked. For the Memorial’s Director, books “help main- tain collective memory of the scourge of terrorism”. Raúl Guerra Garrido has a prominent place in the exhibition. Roncesvalles Labiano described him as “a pioneer who wrote about what he saw, and wro- te and lived against ETA and alongside its victims”. The curator stressed that he, Fernando Aramburu, Luisa Etxeni- ke, Irati Goikoetxea and many other au- thors put “words where there was often silence”, helping ensure ETA’s victims are more than a number or historical reference. She also recalled that “lite- rature shows us where intolerance, de- humanisation and the justification of violence lead”. 74 CULTURE