Books For Children
Kirmen Uribe has published a number of books for children and young adults as well. The best-known are the humorous adventures of Garmendia, a Basque who in the nineteenth century goes to America to work as a sheepherder and ends up a gunslinger. So far he has appeared in three little books: Garmendia and the Black Rider (Elkar, 2003), Garmendia the King (Elkar, 2004) and Garmendia and Fanny’s Secret (Elkar, 2006). Garmendia the King won the New Book prize, thanks to the voting of the young people in Basque secondary schools.
For younger children Uribe has written the books Guti (Elkar, 2005), the story of a fishermen’s dog who is left without a boat, and I’m Not Blond—So What? (Elkar, 2004), which recounts the anxieties of a little Moroccan girl named Amira, who has trouble making friends in her new home in the Basque Country. For the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Kukubiltxo theatre group, Uribe adapted Mikel Zarate’s children’s story Ekidazu for the stage, and Kukubiltxo performed it in 2002, with the musical collaboration of Oskorri.
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