Karmelo C. Iribarren was born in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1959. An autodidact, he began writing poetry in his late teens, but never went to university, working instead as a bartender in San Sebastián’s Old Town for more than twenty years. He began publishing his work in the 1990s, but it is only recently that his poems have gained notoriety and an ardent readership in Spain. He has published fifteen collections, most recently La última del domingo, for which he was awarded the 15th Hermanos Argensola International Poetry Prize.
