Event: The Middle Sea and Beyond — a poetry reading by Stephanos
Date: Wednesday 3 May 2023
Time: 18:00
Venue: Harsun Farmhouse, University of Malta
The , University of Malta and the are pleased to invite you to ‘The Middle Sea and Beyond’, a poetry reading by . The reading takes place on Wednesday, the 3rd of May at 6PM at the Ħarsun Farmhouse, University of Malta Msida Campus.
Stephanos Stephanides is a poet, essayist, memoirist, translator, ethnographer, documentary filmmaker, and former Professor of Comparative literature at the University of Cyprus. He was born in Cyprus and was taken to the UK by his father when he was eight. He returned to Cyprus in 1992 as part of the founding faculty of the University of Cyprus.He completed his PhD at Cardiff University. He has lived in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Guyana, the USA, and has developed a deep interest in Caribbean culture, and Indian diasporic communities. Selections of his poetry have been published in more than twelve languages. He has held residential writing and research fellowships at the University of Warwick, the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy; JNIAS at JNU, India, and is a writing fellow of the IWP of the University of Iowa. He was awarded first prize for poetry from the American Anthropological Association, 1988, and first prize for video poetry for his film Poets in No Man’s Land (2012) at the Nicosia International Film Festival. He was a judge for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2000, 2010,) and for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2022). He is Emeritus Fellow of the English Association, and Cavaliere of the Republic of Italy. Representative publications include Translating Kali’s Feast: the Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction (2000), Blue Moon in Rajasthan and other poems (2005), and The Wind Under My Lips (2018). His ethnographic films include Hail Mother Kali (1988) and Kali in the Americas (2003).
Entrance to Prof. Stephanides’s poetry reading is free and open to the public. Students, creative writers, postgraduate researchers and scholars with an interest in literature and creative writing are particularly encouraged to attend. A Q&A session will follow on from the reading. Refreshments will be served after the event. For further information and to book a place, kindly contact Ms. Isabelle Abela or Prof. Norbert Bugeja .
