Immanuel Mifsud is a poet and a writer born in Malta in 1967. He is the recipient of a number of awards: the Malta National Award for prose (2002, 2015), the Malta National Award for poetry (2014, 2016), and the European Union Prize for Literature (2011). Various works by Mifsud have been translated and published in a number of languages. He holds a PhD from the University of Malta where he lectures in Maltese literature and literary theory.