Miren Agur Meabe

Miren Agur Meabe Plaza[1] (born 1962) is a Basque poet, prose writer, author of books for children and young adults and a translator.

In 2021, she was the first author to win the Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Poetry Award for a work in Basque.

[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.