Kirmin Uribe is an acclaimed writer in the Basque language. Born in 1970, the son of a trawlerman, he studied Basque Philology at the University of the Basque Country-Gasteiz, and was a postgraduate in Comparative Literature in Trento, Italy. His poetry collection, Take My hand was published in Spanish, French, English, Catalan and Russian, and won the 2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He as also written books for children and in the past decade has created multimedia events. Elizabeth Macklin is an American poet, and an experienced translator of Basque literature.