Kirmen Uribe is a Basque writer based in New York. Born into a fishing family in Ondarroa, he writes in Basque, Spanish, and English, and his work explores personal and collective memory, migration, and the crossing of languages. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and published by houses such as Gallimard, Hakusui Sha, and Berlin Verlag.

His debut novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao (Coffee House Press, 2023), received Spain’s National Prize for Fiction. His novel Life Before Dolphins (Coffee House Press, 2027) was written during his fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. A four-time winner of the Spanish Critics’ Prize for poetry and fiction, he has published work in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. His work also reaches beyond the page: he wrote the libretto for the opera Saturraran and created ABC: The Alphabet of the Bilbao Museum for the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. A former fellow of the University of Iowa’s International
Writing Program, he serves as Writer in Residence in the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University.s a Basque-born, New York–based writer whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and published by major international houses such as Gallimard, Hakusui Sha, and Berlin Verlag. His debut novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao (Coffee House Press, 2023), received Spain’s National Prize for Literature and became a landmark of contemporary European writing. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and other leading literary journals. A former NYPL Cullman Center Fellow, he serves as Writer in Residence at New York University.