Harkaitz Cano (Lasarte-Oria, 1975) has published novels, comics, literary non-fiction, short stories and poetry, and he has translated the works of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Hanif Kureishi, Raymond Carver and Allen Ginsberg into Basque.
He has received the Euskadi Prize for Literature on three occasions, the Spanish National Critics’ Award on four occasions, and several other distinctions, including the 111 Akademia Recognition, awarded by the readers. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and The Indian Quarterly, and he has taught at the Elías Querejeta Film School (Donostia-San Sebastián) and at the University of Chicago.
