Meet the two candidates from Malta who have been selected to participate in the 2024/2025 Ulysses' Shelter 3 residency programme.
Gabriel Schembri is a former investigative journalist, writer, and communications coordinator for a human rights NGO. He published two books; Esklussiva Dotkom (2014), which was short-listed for the national book prize, and Patria (2017). His writing featured in other projects, including in a collection of short stories published by Klabb Kotba Maltin. He has also written and performed a number of poems at literary events, with the most recurring theme being migration.
Kat Storace is publisher and literary translator from Malta. She is the co-founder of Praspar Press, a UK-based small press dedicated to publishing Maltese writing in English and translated into English. Her first full-length translation of short stories by Loranne Vella, what will it take for me to leave (Praspar Press, 2021), was shortlisted for the Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize. Her translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and The White Review. She is the recipient of a PEN Translates award for her English translation of Loranne Vella's prizewinning novel Rokit, forthcoming from Praspar in 2025.