IÑIGO LAMARCA (San Sebastian, 1959). With a degree in Law, from 1984 to 1994 he was a lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of the Basque Country. In 1994 he became a lawyer in the General Assembly of Gipuzkoa. He has been president of Gehitu, the Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, Bisexual and Intersex Association of the Basque Country, and secretary-general of FELGTB, the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals. In 2004 he was appointed Ararteko (ombudsman of the Basque Country) by the Basque Parliament, a position he held until 2015. He has published the short memoir Diario de un adolescente gay [Diary of a Gay Teenager] (ALBERDANIA, 2009), the Spanish translation of Gay nauzu, published by ALBERDANIA in 1999. This is his first novel.