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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Just out, The Bitch, by Pilar QUINTANA (Colombia, IWP ‘11), translated from the Spanish. Ms. Quintana is also among the current mentors for IWP’s Women’s Creative Mentorship Professionalization Project.
Cultural entrepreneurship at its most admirable:Kristian Sendon CORDERO (IWP ’17), book seller, beer brewer, publisher, gardener, Bikol translator, screenplay author and poet extraordinaire on his Savage Mind in Naga City (The Philippines).
Between July 18 and July 25, the 2020 digital iteration of the Cathay Arts Festival will include free access to two dance performances by Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, one of them the career retrospective of its founder, the poet, dancer, and choreographer LIN Hwai-min (IWP’70).
Etgar KERET (IWP ‘01) is among the thirty international storytellers commissioned for New York Times’ extravagantly designed “COVID Decameron” issue.
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, the first English-language international pandemic anthology, features writing by IWP alumni Eavan BOLAND (’79), Eduardo HALFÓN (’11), Shenaz PATEL (’16) and Gábor SZÁNTÓ (’03), among many other colleagues.

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