Nadia Mifsud
Born in Malta in 1976, Nadia Mifsud moved to France in 1998. She currently lives in Lyon, where she writes, teaches and sometimes translates. To date, she has published three books of poetry, one chapbook, one novel and a collection of short stories.
Mifsud’s poems have been awarded various prizes in Malta, including the National Book Prize twice. Her novel and her collection of short stories were shortlisted for the 2018 & 2022 Malta National Book Prize respectively. In 2022 she became Malta’s third Poet Laureate. Her work has been translated into several languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Croatian, Slovenian, Polish, Malayalam, Turkish and Finnish.
Mifsud has translated into French some of the strongest voices in Maltese contemporary literature. Her translation of Immanuel Mifsud’s first novel (EU Prize for Literature 2011) was published by Gallimard in 2016 under the title Je t’ai vu pleurer.
As a member of the Maltese cultural organization Inizjamed, she has been involved in the organization of the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival since 2011, which takes place every summer towards the end of August.
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