Clare Azzopardi

Clare Azzopardi was born in 1977 in Malta.She is a prose writer, writer for children and teacher. She published her stories in English translation as Others, Across (2005) and her Maltese short story collection Il-Linja l-Hadra (The Green Line, 2006) won the Maltese National Book Award for fiction. Translations of her short stories have been published in literary reviews, including In Focus (Pen Cyprus, 2005/2006), Cúirt 21 (Ireland, 2006) Lettre (Hungary, 2006), Kulturas Forms (Latvia, 2006), Transcript (LAF, 2007), Skald (Wales, 2007) and on http://www.laurahird.com/. Her play L-Interdett Taht is-Sodda (The Interdict beneath my Bed) was published in French by Éditions Théâtrales in 2008. She has also written six textbooks for children called Stilel and edited a series of twelve children’s books. Her first novel for children was published in April 2009.

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