Nadia Mifsud

Nadia Mifsud (born 1976) is a Maltese poet, novelist and trilingual literary translator living in France. She is Malta's third poet laureate.

Career Mifsud has written in both Maltese and French. She has written on the classic themes of "love and death," as well as women's experiences, "such as mother-daughter relationships and the changes a woman’s body goes through". The poems in her first book were "short, direct texts" which "[experimented] with typography".

In 2022, Mifsud was named Poet laureate of Malta. As a child, Mifsud's mother encouraged her reading, often rewarding her good behavior with books. She began writing as a child, and wrote poetry in elementary school.

Mifsud married in 2002, but separated from her husband less than a year later.

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)

Prose

Short stories

Translations

Poetry

transkrit:08 (2016, Kulturfabrik)

Bateau Noir (2011, Edizzjonijiet Emma Delezio)

Prose

Interviews Dans tes oreilles (2 April 2020, by Maïté Cussey, Margot Espinasse and Marion Feugère) Il faut pouvoir dire les choses (12/13 March 2016 by Thierry Hick) The Faraway Nearby - Nadia Mifsud (15 September 2015, by Teodor Reljic) Would you like a book with your coffee? (20 October 2009, by Stephanie Fsadni)

Awards