Basque writer
Don José Manterola Beldarrain (1849–1884), born in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain, was a Basque writer who founded one of the most influential movements for cultivating the Basque language. As a member of the Navarrese movement, he was best known for founding the bilingual magazine "Euskal-Erria" (meaning "the country of the Basques") in 1880, and editing it until 1884. Between 1877 and 1880 he published a three volume collection of Basque songs, "Cancionero Vasco", complete with biographical, bibliographical, and critical notes. They are generally regarded as being the first anthology of Basque poetry.