The writer Raúl Guerra Garrido, an intellectual reference against ETA and founder of the Ermua Forum, dies

• By Fernando Aramburu Panegyric to Raúl Guerra Garrido

The writer

has died this Friday in San Sebastián at the age of 87.

Friends of the Madrid novelist living in San Sebastián have informed Efe that Guerra Garrido died this afternoon at the San Sebastián Polyclinic, where he was hospitalized due to worsening health problems.

Guerra Garrido, who has addressed political and social aspects related to Basque society since the 1960s in his work, was awarded the Nadal Prize in 1976 and the National Prize for Literature in 2006.

Founder of the Ermua Forum born as a result of the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, he was

, he had to carry an escort and an attack with incendiary bottles destroyed the pharmacy he ran with his wife in San Sebastián.

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