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Immanuel Mifsud
Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967, the youngest in a working class family of eight children.

He started writing poetry at age 16, when he co-founded the literary group Versarti. Later on he directed plays by Chekhov, Dario Fo, Max Frisch, Federico Garcia Lorca, David Mamet, Harold Pinter and Alfred Buttigieg.

Immanuel Mifsud has published a number of prose works and poetry, some of which have been translated into various languages and published in various European countries and USA.

His 2002 short story collection Sara Sue Sammut's Strange Stories won the National Literary Award. The same book was nominated for the Premio Strega Europa. Mfisud's next collection of stories, Chemistry stirred a controversy for what was deemed as "pornographic literature". The Left leaning press lambasted the book for its "filth", while the leading Right leaning English newspaper never published reviews on this book. In 2008 Midsea Books will be publishing his next work Stories Which Should Not Have Been Written.

Immanuel Mifsud writes also for children; his latest publication Orqod, Qalbi, Orqod being a collection of lullabies.


contact: immanuel.mifsud@um.edu.mt

© Immanuel Mifsud, 2000-2010

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