Itxaso Martín Zapirain (Donostia-San Sebastián, 1981) is a journalist and holds a PhD in Anthropology.

In 2016, she published her doctoral thesis, Madness, Submemory and Silences: Women Turned into Voids as a Mirror of Contemporary Society and Morality, for which she received the Micaela Portilla Vitoria Award.

She has spent most of her professional career working in radio and television and currently works at EITB’s New Formats Lab.

In 2012, she published her debut novel, “Ni, Vera”, in Basque (Txalaparta), winning the Silver Euskadi Award. In 2024, her second novel, “Punto bobo”, was also published in Basque (Erein).

In 2025, Lunwerg published the Spanish-language edition of “Ni, Vera”, titled “Dos veces Vera”. A year later, the publisher followed up with the Spanish-language edition of “Punto bobo”.

Also in 2025, she made her debut as a children’s author in Basque with the “Mati” series (Alai). Three volumes have been published to date, achieving considerable sales success.