Antoine Cassar
Maltese poet and translator · Malta · On the map · Writers · Born 1978 · age 48
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.
Antoine Cassar is read about 3 times a day, in 7 languages.
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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.
