(Adrian Grima is among the three European poets travelling across India, thanks to Literature Across Frontiers. On Nov 15, I'll moderate a panel discussion featuring the three alongside Anamika and Sampurna Chattarji. 6PM @India International Centre)
Adrian Grima (Malta,1968) is
a prizewinning author of poetry collections and short stories
for adults and adolescents in Maltese. He has read his poetry in many
countries in the Mediterranean and Europe, and also in Australia,
Nicaragua, and Bali and Makassar in Indonesia. Collections
of his poetry in translation have appeared in English, German,
Italian and French: The
Tragedy of the Elephant (2005),
Deciphered
Lips (Northern
Ireland, 2013), Adrian
Grima (Berlin,
2010), La
coda della freccia (Italy,
2011), and Ici
arrivent les mouettes (2012).
His
most recent publication is Klin
u Kapriċċi Oħra (KKM
2015) (Rosemary and other indulgences), his third solo collection of
poems in Maltese.
Grima is also one of the founders of the cultural NGO Inzijamed and
its Malta Mediaterranean Literature Festival, established in 2006. He
teaches
literature in the Department of Maltese at the University of
Malta. He has written and edited a number of academic works, and read
and published papers in many countries, focusing mainly on literature
in the Mediterranean.
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