by Kirmen Uribe · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432250927
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«Bilbao-New York-Bilbao» is the contemporary novel by Kirmen Uribe, published by Booket in paperback (214 pages, in Spanish).
During a flight between Bilbao and New York, a writer reconstructs the story of three generations of his family, marked by the sea and fishing. Letters, diaries, emails, poems and dictionaries form a mosaic of memories that begins with Liborio Uribe's farewell before a painting by Aurelio Arteta.
It won the Critics' Prize for Narrative in Basque in 2008 and the National Prize for Narrative in 2009. The novel was originally published in Basque; this Spanish edition is translated by Ana Arregi.
For readers of contemporary fiction who value stories of family memory and the maritime roots of the Basque Country.
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque-born New York-based award-winning writer whose work transcends borders, weaving together personal and collective histories. Through poetry and fiction, he explores themes of identity, migration, and memory, and reinvents the form. His debut novel, Bilbao–New York–Bilbao, won National Prize for Literature in Spain. His works have been translated into over twenty languages. Uribe's poetry has appeared in journals including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. In 2018, he received the New York Public Library Cullman Center Writing Fellowship. He now lives in New York City with his family, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University (NYU).
