A literary evening with Immanuel Mifsud
Immanuel Mifsud opens the series of literary events in the series ‘Music and More in the Jesuits’ through an evening of reading poems about the pandemic, selected from the following collection. Dear My Body.
Title Keep Painting with that Pomegranate Redthe evening will take place in the Immaculate Oratory inside the Jesuit church in Valletta on January 12 from 7.30 to 8.30pm.
The event is part of the latest cultural venture of the Jesuit Church Foundation (JCF) ‘Music and More at the Jesuits’ – a program that seeks to launch the Jesuit church as a cultural center in Valletta.
Mifsud is one of the most prominent writers on the Maltese scene. He won the European Union Literary Prize in 2011 with the book In the Name of the Father (and of the Son) which has been translated into 11 languages.
His most recent books, both novels and short stories and poems have been published in other countries including England, Serbia, Albania and Egypt.
Mifsud teaches literature and literary theory at the University of Malta where he obtained a doctorate with a study on the body in 20th century poetry.
Free entry but a donation in aid of the foundation’s cultural projects would be appreciated. The entrance to the Oratory of the Immaculate is from Archbishop Street, opposite the Jesuit church.
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