Kirmen Uribe 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, including French (Gallimard), Japanese (Hakusui Sha) and English (Coffee House Press). His works have been published on several American publications such as The New Yorker or The Paris Review. In 2017, he was selected for the International Writers Program (IWP) in Iowa. 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).