Nadia Mifsud

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

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)
 * varjazzjonijiet tas-skiet (2021, Ede Books)
 * kantuniera 'l bogħod (2015, Edizzjoni Skarta)
 * żugraga (2009)

Anthologies

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

Online Journals and Collections

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

Short stories

 * żifna f'xifer irdum (2021, Merlin Publishers)

Novel

 * Ir-rota daret dawra (kważi) sħiħa (2017, Merlin Publishers)

Anthologies

 * Scintillas - New Maltese Writing 2 (2022, Praspar Press)
 * Leħen il-Malti (various editions, L-Għaqda tal-Malti - Università)

Online Journals and Collections

 * Culture 360 - ASEF, Made in Bangladesh (19 August 2023)

Poetry

 * xtaqt li kont merkurju (2022, Inizjamed)
 * transkrit:08 (2016, Kulturfabrik)
 * Voix Vives - Anthologie Sète (2012, Éditions Bruno Doucey)
 * Għaraq Xort'Oħra (2012, Inizjamed)
 * Bateau Noir (2011, Edizzjonijiet Emma Delezio)

Prose

 * Le Grand Tour - Autoportrait de l'Europe par ses écrivains (2022, Grasset)
 * Je t'ai vu pleurer (2016, Gallimard)

Interviews

 * Behind the fiction, there are real stories (26 August 2023, by Leanne Ellul)
 * Illum ma' Steph - Varjazzjonijiet tas-Skiet (25 May 2023, by Stephanie Spiteri)
 * Markapaġna - Episodju Speċjali (24 January 2023, by Luke Galea)
 * When the littlest things matter the most (12 August 2020)
 * Journeys of Discovery (15 May 2020, by Kristina Cassar Dowling) 
 * Dans tes oreilles (2 April 2020, by Maïté Cussey, Margot Espinasse and Marion Feugère)
 * How Many People Read Poetry? (17 March 2020)
 * Wiċċ imb'wiċċ (17 August 2018, by Antonella Axisa)
 * Xi qrajt dan l-aħħar? (13 September 2016, by Antonella Axisa)
 * Malta is the Mediterranean Bridge (16 August 2016, by Luka Ostojić)
 * The City and the Writer: In Valletta, Malta with Nadia Mifsud (13 July 2016, by Nathalie Handal)
 * One is a crowd - Nadia Mifsud (26 April 2016, by Luise Behr)
 * Making Poetry Accessible (23 April 2016)
 * Il faut pouvoir dire les choses (12/13 March 2016 by Thierry Hick)
 * The Faraway Nearby - Nadia Mifsud (15 September 2015, by Teodor Reljic)
 * How I write - Nadia Mifsud (1 August 2020)
 * Would you like a book with your coffee? (20 October 2009, by Stephanie Fsadni) 

Awards

 * Merlin Publishers' #abbozz Competition 2014 (winner)
 * Amante Buontempo National Poetry Contest 2017 (1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes)
 * Amante Buontempo National Poetry Contest 2018 (1st prize)
 * Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest 2019 (1st prize)
 * National Book Prize: Poetry 2016 (winner, kantuniera 'l bogħod)
 * National Book Prize: Prose 2018 (finalist, Ir-rota daret dawra (kważi) sħiħa)
 * National Book Prize: Prose 2022 (finalist, żifna fuq xifer irdum)
 * National Book Prize: Prose 2022 (winner, varjazzjonijiet tas-skiet)
 * Poet Laureate 2022