Bio

Born in A Coruña (Galicia) in 1978 and based in Sheffield, Isaac Xubín is an award-winning poet, writer and translator. He holds a degree in Galician Philology and an MA in Language Policy and Planning. As a teacher and researcher he wrote a Galician-Basque dictionary and taught Galician Language and Culture in University College Cork (Ireland). As a writer he has published three collections of poems: Con gume de folla húmida (2012), A cadencia da fractura (2017) and Xenealoxía dun intruso (2012). His first novel, Non hai outro camiño (2016), was awarded with the Spanish Critics Prize in Galician Language (2017). He is the main translator of Basque literature into Galician, including Kirmen Uribe, Uxue Alberdi, Karmele Jaio, Harkaitz Cano and others. His work with Tempo de exilio (2017), a compilation of Joseba Sarrionaindia’s poetry, was awarded in the first edition of the Etxepare Translation Award (2017).

Project

During my stay at Faber I will be working with the poetry of Miren Agur Meabe, one of the most influential voices of the Basque poetry scene and National Poetry prize in 2021. The outcome of my work will be an anthology published by the outstanding publishing house Chan da Pólvora in the second semester of 2022.