Kirmen Uribe

Kirmen Uribe is a writer and one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Basque literature. The author of four novels and three poetry collections, his work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and published in magazines such as The New Yorker and The Paris Review. His distinctions include Spain’s National Narrative Award, the National Critics’ Award and the Eusko Ikaskuntza Award. In 2018, he was awarded the Cullman Center Fellowship for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. He lives in New York, where he teaches in NYU’s Creative Writing Program. His work explores memory, history, displacement, multiple identities and intergenerational transmission, combining documentary research with fiction.