# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antoine-cassar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:06:47.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antoine-cassar"
name: "Antoine Cassar"
slug: "antoine-cassar"
description: "Antoine Christopher A. F. Cassar is a Maltese poet and translator. His book-length poem Erbgħin Jum was awarded the National Book Prize in 2018, and shortlisted for the European Poet of Freedom award, based in Gdańsk, Poland. Passaport, a protest poem about borders nested inside a love poem to humanity as a naturally migrating species, has been published in over a dozen languages, and adapted for the theatre in Europe, the Americas and Australia. In September 2009, his multilingual poem Merħba was the Grand Prize winner of the United Planet Writing Contest."
tagline: "Maltese poet and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antoine_Cassar%2C_Micha%C5%82_Rusinek_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1978"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.89
  momentum:             14.85881207400195
  historical:           6.336465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Antoine Cassar"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "انطوان كسار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Cassar"
    title: "Antoine Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Cassar"
    title: "Antoine Cassar"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Cassar"
    title: "Antoine Cassar"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Cassar"
    title: "Antoine Cassar"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Cassar"
    title: "Antoine Cassar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3618821"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump