Concetta Probanza was born in Urretxu (Guipuzkoa) in 1969. She studied Fine Arts and she is an illustrator and a designer.
She published, together with the poet Patxi Ezquiaga, the book Mahats-denbota (Time of grapes), an art book with a sample of her pictures.
She has illustrated works by many authors and she has worked in the comic industry and with cartoons. She is a member of API, Professional Association of Vasque Illustrators.
Two young people – Special and Mr X- are in love, but theirs is a secret love. Throughout this story, the two of them will try to answer the question that names the book by means of their reflections and their experiences. The many sides of this feeling (desire, jealously, commitment, doubts…) will appear in the personal point of view of each one of them. However, this couple is aware of the world that surrounds them: they are concern about poverty, war, climate change, domestic violence, inequality … and they show their commitment in their poems, or in the lyrics of the songs they write. That is the reason of so many references to music or literature.
A work full of meanings, made of short chapters and that contains a whole book of poems inside it.
A innovative story that is not read in just one direction but jumping from a narrator to the other one… just as love is: a two voices dialogue.
Selected by Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation to contribute “Lo + 2011” (2011 tops).
Miren Agur has been awarded by the Literature Critics Award 2011.