Miren Agur Meabe was born on 7 October 1962, in Lekeitio, Spain.[1] She studied teaching and Basque philology,[3][4] then for some time worked as a teacher in Bilbao.[4]
Career
For years, Miren Agur Meabe worked as a publisher,[4] heading de Basque office of the Giltza-Edebé publishing house.[1] Later, she quit publishing to focus on writing.[1] She writes poetry, books for children and young adults, but has also published fiction for adults.[1][5] 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.[6]
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),[1] three Euskadi Literature Prizes for young adult novels Itsaslabarreko etxea (2002), Urtebete itsasargian (2006) and Errepidea (2011) and two Premio de la Crítica awards for poetry books Azalaren kodea (2001) and Bitsa eskuetan (2011).[3][4] Her children's book Mila magnolia-lore (2010) was included in the IBBY Honour List.[5] In 2021, she was the awarded the National Poetry Prize for Nola gorde errautsa kolkoan.[1][7][5] She was the first author to win the prize with a work in Basque.[5][7]
Meabe also works as a translator into Basque.[5][8] She has translated works by such authors as Forough Farrokhzad or Scholastique Mukasonga, and received the Vitoria-Gasteiz Translation Prize twice.[3]
