Susa 2012 200 Pages Original title: Mussche ISBN: 978-84-92468-43-0 Translated into: click here
In May 1937, after the bombing of Gernika, thousands of Basque children left the port of Bilbao for exile. Among them was Karmentxu, an eight-year-old girl who was taken in in Ghent, Belgium, by the writer Robert Mussche. Robert’s life will change with the arrival of the girl, her involvement in the resistance during the Civil War and the advent of the Second World War.
This novel is the story that the author himself tells his recently deceased best friend, “the story of an anonymous hero, one of those we see on the street”.
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).
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