Willy Uribe

Willy Uribe (Bilbao, 1965). Author and photographer.
For many years, Uribe attended author Ramiro Pinilla’s writing workshop in Algorta, the Basque Country; Pinilla published his first book, Cuentos Revueltos (Scrambled Stories) in 1986. Since then, Uribe’s essential work of literature has been consolidated among new novels in Spain. Thanks to his narrative technique, Uribe occupies a singular and atypical place in the violent world that tends to be depicted in the noir genre..His narrative style, according to director Isabel Coixet, has “a subtlety from which many Spanish writers should learn.” Because, as his teacher Ramiro Pinilla says, “Uribe has stories to tell and knows how to tell them.” According to Carlos Zanón, his novels are “perfect bombs of machinery that blow up at precisely the right moment. Uribe has talent, vocation, boldness, courage, his own particular voice, and honesty.”.One of his best novels, Sé que mi padre decía (I Know What My Father Said) was the winner of the Silverio Cañada Award in Gijón, the Violeta Negra Prize in Toulouse and the Farolillo de papel Award from the Chamber of Books in Bilbao. Another of his novels, Cuadrante las Planas, was a finalist for the Tusquets Prize as well as the Hammet Award during Noir Week in Gijón..He currently resides in Formentera.