Kirmen Uribe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kirmen Uribe

Spanish writer

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1970

Place of Birth: Ondarroa, Basque Country, Spain

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, essayist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Kirmen Uribe (pronounced ['ki?men u'?ibe]; born October 5, 1970) is a Basque language writer.
He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao.
The languages into which the novel has been translated exceed fifteen, including French (Gallimard) and Japanese (Hakusui Sha).
His poetry collection Meanwhile Take My Hand (Graywolf, 2007), translated into English by Elizabeth Macklin, was a finalist for the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
His works have been published on The New Yorker, Open City and Little Star.