Ghettos and Peripheries - "Euskara"

Ghettos and Peripheries - "Euskara"
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures | Spanish and Portuguese
Monday, March 4, 2024
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Jimenez Hall,
2125
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque writer and has won Spain's National Prize for Literature for his first novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao (Coffee House Press, 2022), translated into over 15 languages.
Previously, his first poetry collection, Meanwhile Take My Hand was published by Graywolf and was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Uribe’s work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among others. He was selected for the Iowa International Writers Program in 2017 and awarded a New York Public Library Cullman Center Writing Fellowship for 2018-2019. He is now based in New York City, where he teaches at the MFA of Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University (NYU).