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A new edition of Mexican Guadalajara International Book Fair began last weekend, the largest in Latin America and once again, Basque literature and Basque publications will again be present at a stand that this year will also include the participation of Basque writer and poet Kirmen Uribe. After visiting the Fair, Uribe will then travel to Mexico City to participate in cultural events at the Euskal Etxea and UNAM.

Guadalajara, Mexico.   The International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara is the largest literary event in Latin America that gathers thousands of book professionals, publishers, and authors from all over the world annually.  In hopes of giving Basque literature more visibility, and as an initiative of the Etxepare Basque Institute, Kirmen Uribe (Ondarroa, 1970) is participating in the nine-day event, through December 3^rd, that will also be attended by some of the most relevant names in literature today.

The author of Bilbao-New York-Bilbao (2009) will continue to provide the uninterrupted presence of Basque authors at the fair that began some seven years ago. Iban Zaldua, Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Bernardo Atxaga, Karmele Jaio, Harkaitz Cano, Mikel Ayerbe and Anjel Lertxundi, are among the others who have attended thanks to the Etxepare Institute representing Basque literature at the Fair.  The Euskal Editoreen Elkartea (Association of Basque Language Editors) and the Association of Basque Editors in Euskadi will man a stand of some twelve publishers, along with the Basque Government’s Vice-Minister of Basque Culture, Joxean Muñoz, will complete the list of representatives at this year’s fair.

Uribe will present his latest novel in Guadalajara The Time to Wake Up Together (2016) will participate in various activities of the official program, in addition to responding to an intense media agenda programmed by the Institute in order to generate maximum impact and visibility for Basque literature.

On November 27^th he will attend a colloquium in the “Galas The Pleasure of Reading,” section,  a program to promote reading that seeks to bring writers and readers together to talk about their reading experiences, the titles that accompanied them throughout their lives, their reading habits and their literary philias and phobias. The Basque writer will share the spotlight with Mexican academic Concepción Company, poet Myriam Moscona, who is also Mexican, the Brazilian journalist and writer Bernardo Carvalho and the Chilean author Álvaro Bisama.

On November 28th, as part of the “Readers Present” an anonymous reader who has read the work ahead of time will present The Time to Wake Up Together, Uribe’s third novel and will start a dialogue between the writer and the audience.

Finally, on November 29th, as part of the program “Ecos of the FIL,” Uribe will attend the regional school of Atotonilco where he will participate in a gathering with students there.

After his time in Guadalajara, the author will travel to Mexico City to attend a colloquium with the Basque community at the Euskal Etxea and will then participate in a literary gathering at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), organized by the Basque language and culture lecturer there.