by Kirmen Uribe · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788432241789
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«La vida anterior de los delfines» is the contemporary novel by Kirmen Uribe, published by Booket in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
A novel that follows several generations of pacifist women. A narrator travels to New York to investigate the archive of feminist Rosika Schwimmer and discovers that its content transforms his understanding of the past. His crossing of the ocean as a migrant recalls the Basque legend of men turned into dolphins for loving a lamia.
The Booket edition, in paperback, was published in Barcelona on March 1, 2023 and belongs to the Novela collection.
Recommended for readers of contemporary and social fiction interested in exile, historical memory and Basque culture.
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).
