The official number of writers affiliated to the Association of Basque Writers in 1998 totaled two hundred, which is another way of saying that they all knew each other. If one focuses on women writers, the number comes down to twenty–one, of which only thirteen were engaged in creative writing. In the Basque case, Virginia Woolf's famous dictum (‘a room of one's own and five hundred pounds a year’) could have taken an unexpected turn. Following the genealogy of interpretations triggered by Woolf's sentence, one could conclude that one room would still have sufficed to gather all Basque women writers and house their production: a room of their own. The five hundred pounds to which Woolf also referred has become a different matter altogether, as a result of women's professionalization – even though not precisely in the field of literature.

One could further narrow down the list of occupants of this hypothetical ‘room of their own’. At the risk of simplifying, one could name the ten women writers who were most active in the 1990s: Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Mariasun Landa, Laura Mintegi, Tere Irastorza, Arantxa Iturbe, Amaia Iturbide, Jasone Osoro, Yolanda Arrieta, Aurelia Arkotxa, and Itxaro Borda. The first eight are Spanish and the last two French. Although one must conclude that this is a very small group of writers, which could gather together and help each other quite effectively, the fact remains that there has not been an Association of Basque Women Writers to this day. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, they did not publish together; neither did they identify themselves as such – although it would have been fairly easy to organize such a platform. In short, the proverbial Woolfian room did not materialize in the case of Basque women writers for many years.