Kirmen URIBE

2017 Resident

Europe

Southern Europe

Spain

Basque

Spanish

Kirmen URIBE (novelist, poet, essayist; Spain). His first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao earned him Spain’s 2008 National Fiction Prize, and has been translated into fifteen languages; his poems have appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Elkarrekin esnatzeko ordua [The Hour of Waking Together] was published in 2017. He participates courtesy of the Etxepare Basque Institute.

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Mar 05, 7:00 pm Trilingual Reading of Chuck Miller's Poetry at Shambaugh House

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Out of nearly 450 novel titles, the shortlist of ten finalists for the distinguished Vargas Llosa Biannual Award given by the Universidad de Guadalajara contains The Night by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (IWP '13) and Los sueños de la serpiente by Alberto Ruy Sánchez (guest, IWP '09).
In an interview with EuropeNow, Vladimir POLEGANOV (IWP '16) talks about the limits of realist fiction, and the strengths of writing residencies.
Congratulations to our friend and former colleague Kelsi VANADA, the recipient of the 2018 Translation Prize from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for her rendering, from the Swedish, of poems by Marie SILKEBERG (IWP, '15).
A lively talk with poet, journalist, translator, and now award-winning Indonesian novelist Laksmi Pamuntjak (IWP '06) at the 2018 Frankfurter Buchmesse.
A rich review in The Hindu of Samay Ki Kasak , the recent Hindi translation of poet, translator, editor and painter Sukrita Paul Kumar's (IWP '02) most recent poetry collection.

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