Kirmen Uribe is a Basque Language writer, and one of the most important writers of his generation in Spain. He has written two collections of poems and four novels. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao.
The languages into which his books had been translated already exceed twenty, including French (Gallimard), Japanese (Hakusui Sha) and English (Coffee House Press).
His works have been published in prestigious literary publications such as The New Yorker and The Paris Review. In 2017, he was selected for the International Writers Program (IWP) in Iowa. During 2018-2019, he was a New York Public Library Cullman Center Writing Fellow.
Kirmen Uribe is now based in New York City, where he teaches Creative Writing at New York University (NYU).
