Adrian Grima

From the defunct Other Voices website:

'Adrian Grima' was born in Malta in 1968. Lectures in Maltese Literature at the University of Malta. He has read papers on literature, culture and the Mediterranean at conferences in the Mediterranean, Europe and the USA. His academic articles have been published in various countries and he contributes to Babelmed.net, Counterpunch and ZNET. He is the coordinator of the Mediterranean cultural organization Inizjamed, which he co-founded in 1998. He has three published two collections of poetry in Maltese, It-Trumbettier (The Trumpeter, 1999), Rakkmu (Weavings, Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2006) and Riħ min-Nofsinhar (Wind from the South, Edizzjoni Skarta, 2008, with Immanuel Mifsud). His poems have appeared in translation in various publications, including the collections The Tragedy of the Elephant (Midsea Books and Inizjamed, 2005) and Dieser verwundete Frühling — Dir-Rebbiegħa Midruba (Edizzjoni Skarta, 2007). Dr. Grima has edited various collections of recent Maltese literature, including a series of six books of Contemporary Maltese Literature in Translation. He has read his poetry in many countries, most recently in London, Algiers, Cairo, Alexandria, and Lodeve.