Nadia Mifsud

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Nadia Mifsud (born 1976) is a poet, novelist and trilingual literary translator. Born in Malta, she moved to France in 1998. [1] Mifsud is Malta's third poet laureate.

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Publications

Poetry

Own collections

  • variaciones del silencio (2023, Festival de Los Confines, Honduras — translation by Antoine Cassar of varjazzjonijiet tas-skiet)
  • meta tinfetaq il-folla (2022, Ede Books) [2]
  • varjazzjonijiet tas-skiet (2021, Ede Books) [3]
  • kantuniera 'l bogħod (2015, Edizzjoni Skarta) [4]
  • żugraga (2009) [5]

Anthologies

  • Modern Poetry in Translation (No. 02 - 2023, Call the Sea a Poet: Focus on Malta — translations by Miriam Calleja and Luke Galea) [6]
  • Leħen il-Malti (various editions, L-Għaqda tal-Malti - Università) [7]
  • tgħanniq ieħor (2021, Horizons) [8]
  • Courage ! Dix variations sur le courage et un chant de résistance (2020, Éditions Bruno Doucey) [9]
  • Poetic Potatoes (2018, Inizjamed, Valletta 2018, Leeuwarden 2018) [10]
  • Voix Vives - Anthologie Sète (2018, Éditions Bruno Doucey) [11]

Online Journals and Collections

  • Altazor - Revista electrónica de literatura (February 2024 — translations by Antoine Cassar, curated by Khedija Gadhoum) [12]
  • Fragment (11 November 2019 — translations by Antoine Cassar, Albert Gatt, and Nadia Mifsud) [13]

Prose

Short stories

  • żifna f'xifer irdum (2021, Merlin Publishers) [14]

Novel

  • Ir-rota daret dawra (kważi) sħiħa (2017, Merlin Publishers) [15]

Anthologies

  • Scintillas - New Maltese Writing 2 (2022, Praspar Press) [16]
  • Leħen il-Malti (various editions, L-Għaqda tal-Malti - Università) [17]

Online Journals and Collections

  • Culture 360 - ASEF, Made in Bangladesh (19 August 2023) [18]

Translations

Poetry

Prose

Interviews

Awards

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