Handitik Txikira, Txikitik Haundira: The Creative Process of a Basque Writer

Kirmen Uribe will discuss the translation of his novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao into English, along with the adaptation of a Basque-language novel into film, such as Elkarrekin Esnatzeko Ordua (2016) [The Hour to Wake Together]. This work is currently being filmed under the title Karmele, and directed by Asier Altuna.
Kirmen is a Basque Language writer, and one of the most relevant writers of his generation in Spain. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, a work that was acclaimed as a literary event. The languages into which his books had been translated already exceed twenty. In 2018, he won the NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship. He is now based in New York City, where he teaches Creative Writing at New York University (NYU).