LAF-Inizjamed Translation Workshop, Malta, 2013

Books in Malta

Our annual translation workshop with Inizjamed continues the tradition of bringing together writers attending the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival to translate each other’s work into their native language.  This year’s workshop will include poetry and prose written in Arabic, Frisian, Italian, Macedonian, Maltese and Romanian.

Maltese writers Immanuel Mifsud, Clare Azzopardi, Claudia Gauci, Simone Inguanez, Karl Schembri and Maria Grech Ganado will welcome  Angela Bonanno (Sicily), Tsead Bruinja (Netherlands), Khaled Khalifa (Syria), Mazen Maarouf (Palestine), Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia, FYROM), Denisa Mirena Piscu (Romania), Monique Roffey (UK)  and Fahredin Shehu (Kosovo) to Malta for a week of intense multilingual translation.

The workshop is concluded with performances at the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival in Floriana.