Miren Agur Meabe Explained

Miren Agur Meabe
Birth Date:7 October 1962
Birth Place:Lekeitio, Spain
Language:Basque
Citizenship:Spain
Occupation:Writer, translator

Miren Agur Meabe Plaza[1] (born 1962) is a Basque poet, prose writer, author of books for children and young adults and a translator. In 2021, she was the first author to win the Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Poetry Award for a work in Basque.[2]

Early life and education

Miren Agur Meabe was born on 7 October 1962, in Lekeitio, Spain. She studied teaching and Basque philology,[3] [4] then for some time worked as a teacher in Bilbao.

Career

For years, Miren Agur Meabe worked as a publisher, heading de Basque office of the Giltza-Edebé publishing house. Later, she quit publishing to focus on writing. She writes poetry, books for children and young adults, but has also published fiction for adults.[5] She had stated that her earliest poetry work was based on copying the style of Rosalía de Castro, as she was the only female poet that appeared in university textbooks at the time.[6]

For her literary work, Meabe has won a number of awards, such as the Lasarte-Oria town council prize for the poetry tome Oi hondarrezko emaikaitz (1991), three Euskadi Literature Prizes for young adult novels Itsaslabarreko etxea (2002), Urtebete itsasargian (2006) and Errepidea (2011) and two Premio de la Crítica awards for poetry books Azalaren kodea (2001) and Bitsa eskuetan (2011). Her children's book Mila magnolia-lore (2010) was included in the IBBY Honour List. In 2021, she was the awarded the National Poetry Prize for Nola gorde errautsa kolkoan. She was the first author to win the prize with a work in Basque.[7]

Meabe also works as a translator into Basque.[8] She has translated works by such authors as Forough Farrokhzad or Scholastique Mukasonga, and received the Vitoria-Gasteiz Translation Prize twice.

She is a member of the Euskaltzaindia.

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meabe Plaza, Miren Agur . 2023-02-25 . Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia . es.
  2. News: Miren Agur Meabe, primera autora en ganar el Premio Nacional de Poesía con una obra en euskera . Miren Agur Meabe, First Author to Win the National Poetry Award With a Work in Basque . Mikel . Ormazabal . . San Sebastián . es . 2021-09-21 . 2023-02-27.
  3. Web site: Miren Agur Meabe . 2023-02-25 . SPAIN - Spilling Creativity Guest of Honour Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Miren Agur Meabe . 2023-02-25 . Words Without Borders . en.
  5. Web site: 2021-09-21 . La poeta vasca Miren Agur Meabe, Premio Nacional de Poesía 2021 . 2023-02-26 . . es.
  6. News: Ferreira . Maialen . March 29, 2022 . Miren Agur Meabe: “Escribir en una lengua pequeña conlleva que nos miren con cierto desinterés” . Miren Agur Meabe: "Writing in a small language means that they look at us with a certain lack of interest" . Spanish . . February 26, 2023.
  7. Web site: Ormazabal . Mikel . 2021-09-21 . Miren Agur Meabe, primera autora en ganar el Premio Nacional de Poesía con una obra en euskera . 2023-02-26 . . es.
  8. Web site: Miren Agur Meabe . 2023-02-26 . Tabakalera.
  9. Web site: Miren Agur Meabe . 2023-02-26 . Edinburgh International Book Festival.
  10. News: Lewis . Rhiannon . October 30, 2022 . Review: Burning Bones by Miren Agur Meabe . . February 26, 2023.
  11. News: Quiroga . Leonor . January 6, 2023 . Miren Agur Meabe incinera el peso del ayer en “Quema de huesos” . Miren Agur Meabe incinerates the weight of yesterday in “Burning Bones” . Spanish . Cronica Jolisco . February 26, 2023.

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