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Basque writer Kirmen Uribe receives Pen Club award in New York

Kultura / Diaspora - 2008/05/26

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Pen Club, United States' most important association of writers gave Basque writer Kirmen Uribe the prize he had been awarded with for the English translation of his poetry book Bitartean heldu eskutik (Meanwhile take my hand).

The translation of the book was made by Elizabeth Macklin and was among the finalists in the category of poetry, an acknowledgement which culminates a year full of successes.


Some Uribe’s poems can also be found at New European Poets, a collection of young European poets that has been recently published in the United States. Kirmen Uribe also emphasized literary critics’ role for his success in the United States.


`The fact that a review is written in Los Angeles Times, Washington Post or Harvard Review, opens the door to new possibilities´, said the writer.
Kirmen Uribe will continue bounded to this country during the next months because he has been invited to write by a Californian university and in autumn he will write a novel set in New York.




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eitb24