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A six-year-old’s plea for peace: discussing Mafalda’s legacy with Idra Novey & Kirmen Uribe
Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. Her recent novel Take What You Need was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023and a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her translations include Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. and Garous Abdolmalekian’s Lean Against the Late Hour, co-translated with Ahmad Nadalizadeh, a finalist for the 2021 PEN Poetry in Translation Prize. Her new book of poems, Soon and Wholly, was longlisted for this year’s PEN/Voelcker Prize.
Kirmen Uribe is a Basque Language writer, and one of the most relevant writers of his generation in Spain. He won the National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009 for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, a work that was acclaimed as a literary event. The languages into which his books had been translated already exceed twenty, including French (Gallimard), Japanese (Hakusui Sha) and English (Coffee House Press). His works have been published on several American publications such as The New Yorker or The Paris Review. In 2017, he was selected for the International Writers Program (IWP) in Iowa. In 2018, he won the NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship.