Immanuel Mifsud
Immanuel Mifsud (born September 12, 1967) is a writer of poetry and prose, born in Paola, Malta. He was for a time involved in research theatre. He has written six collections of short stories, six poetry collections, and also children stories. In 2011, he became the first Maltese writer to win the European Union Prize for Literature. In 2014, he was appointed Member of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Malta. Mifsud became the first Maltese writer to be hosted at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., where on February 16, 2017, he gave a reading  and was interviewed during a special event. In the same year he was commissioned to write a poem for Commonwealth Day; Mifsud read "The Book" during Commonwealth Day Celebration at Westminster Abbey on March 13. Mifsud studied at the University of Malta where he was given a doctorate in literature in 2012. He teaches literature and literary theory at the same university. Prose. 1991: "Stejjer ta' Nies Koroh" (Stories of Ugly People) 1993: "Il-Ktieb tas-Sibt Filgħaxija" (Stories for Saturday Night) 1999: "Il-Ktieb tal-Maħbubin Midruba" (The Book of Maimed Lovers) 2002: "L-Istejjer Strambi ta' Sara Sue  Sammut" (Sara Sue Sammut's Strange Stories) 2005: "Kimika" (Chemistry) 2006: "Happy Weekend" (in English) 2008: "Stejjer li ma kellhomx jinkitbu" (Forbidden Tales) 2010: "Fl-Isem tal-Missier (u tal-Iben)" (In the Name of the Father (and of the Son)) 2014: "Jutta Heim" 2016: "Fid-Dlam tal-Lejl Ħarisna" (In the Dark Night We Looked) Poetry. 1998: "Fid-Dar ta' Clara" (At Clara's) 2001: "Il-Ktieb tar-Riħ u l-Fjuri" (The Book of the Wind and Flowers) 2004: "Polska-Slovensko" (bilingual, Maltese-English) 2005: "km" (bilingual, Maltese-English) 2005: "Confidential Reports" (in English) 2007: "Poland Pictures" (in  English) 2013: "Penelopi Tistenna" (Penelope Waits) 2016: "Ħuta" (Fish) 2016: "The Play of Waves" (in English) Children's literature. 2004: "Stejjer li Kibru fl-Art" (Stories Growing on the Ground)