The Festival Mediterranju tal-Letteratura ta’ Malta or Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival is an established annual international literary festival organized by the voluntary cultural organization Inizjamed in collaboration with the European network Literature Across Frontiers and other national and international partners including Italian Cultural Institute, Arts Council Malta, Heritage Malta, and the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The first edition was held in 2006. The weeklong Malta LAF Literary Translation Workshop is an integral part of the Festival.
The Festival brings together active writers and literary translators from Malta, the Mediterranean and beyond, to showcase contemporary writing and thinking, promote interaction across languages, geographies and artistic genres, and to discuss some of the major issues of our time.
We are pleased to present a major Italian poet, playwright and founder of the literary magazine “ClanDestino”, Davide Rondoni.
By fostering collaboration within specific programmes and across artistic genres through an annual literary festival, a literary translation workshop and other pre-festival events, the Festival Mediterranju tal-Letteratura ta’ Malta aims to consolidate the place of Maltese literature in its simultaneously global and Mediterranean context.
All events are open to the general public and are free of charge.
PROGRAMME
Sunday, 18 August | 20:00 | The Undercroft, Old Theatre Street, Valletta
Is Universality a Myth? The Case for Literature
Panel: Antoine Cassar, Eric Ngalle Charles, Loranne Vella, Habib Tengour. Nadia Mifsud will act as interpreter to Habib Tengour.
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Tuesday, 20 August | 20:00 | Valletta Contemporary, 15, East Street, Valletta
(Not) Maintaining the Status Quo
Panel: Rasha Abbas, Astrid Alben and Yolanda Pantin. Antoine Cassar will act as interpreter to Yolanda Pantin.
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Wednesday, 21 August | 20:00 – 22:30 | Valletta Contemporary, 15, East Street, Valletta
Palk Ħieles / Open Mic
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Thursday, 23 August | 20:00 – 23:00 | Fort St Elmo, Valletta
Nights at the Fort, 1st night
Readings by Yolanda Castaño, Antoine Cassar, Rasha Abbas and Astrid Alben.
Friday, 23 August | 20:00 – 23:00 | Fort St Elmo, Valletta
Nights at the Fort, 2nd night
Readings by Elizabeth Grech, Eric Ngalle Charles, Rena Balzan and Habib Tengour.
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Saturday, 24 August | 20:00 – 23:00 | Fort St Elmo, Valletta
Nights at the Fort, 3rd night
Readings by Loranne Vella, Sampurna Chattarji, Yolanda Pantin and Davide Rondoni.
The Encore – a very short reading by all authors.
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