Kirmin Uribe is an acclaimed writer in the Basque language. Born in 1970, the son of a trawlerman, he studied Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country-Gasteiz, and was a postgraduate in Comparative Literature in Trento, Italy. His poetry collection, Take My hand was published in Spanish, French, English, Catalan and Russian, and won the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He as also written books for children and in the past decade has created multimedia events. Elizabeth Macklin is an American poet, and an experienced translator of Basque literature.
Uribe is an author with numerous preoccupations, politically committed, with a gobal, humanist conscience and a direct and different voice' - PEN America Center on Take My Hand. 'Uribe has succeeded in realizing what is surely an ambition for many writers: a book that combines family, romances and literature, anchored deeply in a spoken culture but also in bookishness - and all without a single note of self-congratulation.' - TLS on Bilbao-New York-Bilbao
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