by Kirmen Uribe · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432239816
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«La vida anterior de los delfines» is the contemporary novel by Kirmen Uribe, published by Seix Barral in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
It interweaves three stories: the unfinished book Edith Wynner dedicated to pacifist Rosika Schwimmer, the life of a Basque family emigrated to Trump-era New York, and the friendship of two girls in a coastal village in the 1970s and 1980s. The Basque legend of the lamias, which turned their lovers into dolphins, is a metaphor for the migratory journey.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Breve collection from Seix Barral. The Spanish edition, translated from Basque by José María Isasi Urdangarín, was published in 2022.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in family memory, migration, and Basque history and mythology.
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).
