Miren Agur Meabe

Miren Agur Meabe Plaza (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.

Early life and education Miren Agur Meabe was born on 7 October 1962, in Lekeitio, Spain. then for some time worked as a teacher in Bilbao. 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.

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),

Meabe also works as a translator into Basque. She has translated works by such authors as Forough Farrokhzad or Scholastique Mukasonga, and received the Vitoria-Gasteiz Translation Prize twice. Ros, 2015, Lóguez Ediciones Pase al anochecer (Pass At Dusk), 2016, Hualde Alfaro Tximeletak (Butterflies), 2016, Elkar Espuma en las manos (Foam In Hands), 2017, Ediciones Trea Katta adarbakarra, 2021, Elkar Quema de huesos (Burning Bones), 2021, Consonni Cómo guardar ceniza en el pecho (How To Keep Ashes On Your Chest), 2021, Bartleby Editores Desberdinen kluba (Club of the Different), 2022, Ttarttalo