Marti Gironell received his degree in journalism from the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and in English Philology from the University of Barcelona. He currently works at TV3, the main television channel in Catalonia. He started working in radio at a very young age and worked for local stations…...read more »

Phillipe Starck´s forty-three-thousand-square-foot cultural center, the Alhóndiga, that was opened in 2010 was the setting for the Gutun Zuria literary conference that brought writers from the U.S., Spain and elsewhere to Bilbao in mid-April. Residents of the Basque city packed the auditorium…...read more »

Kirmen Uribe is a Basque writer and poet. In 2008, his novel, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao was published in Basque. (It has subsequently been translated into more than ten languages and was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura (Narrativa) in Spain. Uribe has also published children´s stories…...read more »