Issue link: https://maltatoday.uberflip.com/i/1451574
6 NEWS maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 16 FEBRUARY 2022 NEWS THE Campus Book Festival re- turns once again in-person at the University of Malta Quad- rangle between Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 March 2022. Organised in collaboration with local publishers, University of Malta departments and stu- dent organisations, the Campus Book Festival will be bringing three days of book presenta- tions, thematic discussions, and interviews with the participation of local and international writers and researchers. The full events programme will be published in the coming weeks. The Irish writer and winner of the European Prize for Litera- ture Jan Carson will be the this year's Festival main internation- al guest. Carson is a writer and commu- nity arts facilitator based in Bel- fast, Northern Ireland. She is the author of the novel, Malcolm Or- ange Disappears, the short story collec-tion, Children's Children (Liberties Press), two micro-fic- tion collections, Postcard Stories 1 and 2 (Emma Press) and the short story collection, The Last Resort (Doubleday). Her novel The Fire Starters (Doubleday) won the 2019 EU Prize for Literature for Ire-land, the Kitschies Prize for Specula- tive Fiction 2020 and was short- listed for the Dalkey Book Prize 2020. Jan won the Harper's Ba- zaar short story competition in 2016 and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Story Prize (2020), Sean O'Faolain Short Story Prize (2016) and the An Post Irish Short Story of the Year Award (2021). Jan's latest novel, The Raptures was published by Doubleday in early 2022. At the 2022 Campus Book Fes- tival, Jan Carson will also be join- ing fellow Maltese EU Prize for Literature winner, Lara Calleja. Calleja is the author of the short story collection Kissirtu Kullimkien (Merlin Publishers, 2020) and Lucy Min? (Merlin Publishers, 2016) and in 2020 was awarded the National Book Prize for Best Emergent Writer. Her first play, 'Taralalla', which explores the complex political phenomena behind construc- tion and immigration, opened at Spazju Kreattiv in 2021. In that same year Calleja won the Na- tional Book Prize for short sto- ries with Kissirtu Kullimkien. Ten local publishers, book- sellers and public entities will be participating at the Cam- pus Book Festival – Horizons, Merlin Publishers, Klabb Kotba Maltin/Midsea Books, Mallia & D'Amato Booksellers, Faraxa Publishing, Kite Group, Marvel- lous Malta, L-Għaqda tal-Mal- ti - Università, Malta Libraries, and the Malta University Press – presenting a number of new books and providing students and attendees with special dis- counts on the occasion of the Festival. As a space which aims to pro- mote the exchange of ideas be- tween students, academ-ics, writ- ers and publishers, the Campus Book Festival is committed to the participation of different UM Departments and student organi- sations. This year the Festival fea- tures the participation of DESA (Department of English Students' Association), HoASA (the Histo- ry of Art and Fine Arts Students' Association), and SPS (Students' Philosophical Society). Also contributing will be the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Maltese, the De- partment of English, Creative Eu- rope Desk Malta and Inizjamed. The National Book Council would like to thank these entities for their collaboration, as well the Uni-versity of Malta for its sup- port towards the Festival's organ- isation and its promotion. The full programme of events will be published in the coming weeks. For further de-tails visit ktieb.org.mt or the National Book Council's Facebook page. Campus Book Festival returns with Irish writer Jan Carson Jan Carson