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Elizabeth GRECH, Paris, translator & proofreader, cultural project manager
Elizabeth Grech studied Contemporary Mediterranean Studies, Anthropology and French at the University of Malta and the Aix-Marseille I University. She worked as a project manager for 10 years at the René Seydoux Foundation in Paris. She was also editor of the English version of babelmed.net, an independent online magazine on Mediterranean cultures and societies. As a self-taught translator, she worked with various social scientists, NGO’s and cultural and artistic organisations. She is a consultant with the CIHEAM (International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies), in charge of the English version of their working documents and publications. Since October 2018, she in charge of translation, communications, networking and international relations with Mana Chuma Teatro, theatre company (Italy).
She is also a literary translator and translates in French, the works of several contemporary Maltese poets/writers including John Aquilina, Clare Azzopardi, Norbert Bugeja, Antoine Cassar, Adrian Grima et John Portelli. Many of her translations have been published as books, in poetry collections or literary journals. She has been writing poetry in Maltese for the past 15 years but started to share them recently. Some of them have been published in poetry collections and journals in different languages (Maltese, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Albanian, Greek, Mandarin and Nepali). Her first poetry collection bejn baħar u baħar was published by Merlin Publishers (Malta, January 2019). Terre sospese, translation in Italian by Virginia Monteforte and Massimo Barilla was published by Capire Edizioni (Forli, Italy, August 2019).
Festivals:
- 4th Patras World Poetry Festival, online, December 2021.
- L’After des 37èmes Assises de la traduction littéraire à Arles, online, November 2020.
- FAIM, online poetry festival, June 2020.
- Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival (MMLF), August 2019.
- International Literary Festival, Tetova, Macedonia and Pogradec, Albania, October 2018.
- International Poetry Festival, Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisia, June 2018.
Literary Publications: English | Français
Interviews: English | Français | Espagnol & Italiano | Italiano
