Gorka Aulestia Txakartegi (born Ondarroa, Biscay, Spain on 11 December 1932) is a Spanish Basque literary historian and lexicographer.
In the period 1980 - 1988 he acted as a lexicographer and an instructor in the Basque Studies Program, and the following year he finally became an assistant professor.
From 1989 until 2000, when he retired, he taught literature in the Basque EUTG center (San Sebastián) at the University of Deusto.
He wrote the following books: He wrote book reviews for the publications such as World Literature Today, Basque Artistic Expression (Society of Basque Studies in America) and Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, as well as articles such as Bernard Etxepare, Medieval or Renaissance Writer?
Since 2002 he was preparing a dictionary of Basque literature, a project sponsored by Euskaltzaindia, in which he had worked for ten years.