Clare Azzopardi is an award-winning writer who creates works for both children and adults. She taught Maltese literature for 25 years and served as Head of the Department of Maltese at the University of Malta Junior College for eight years. She was also an active member of Inizjamed, an NGO dedicated to promoting literature in Malta and internationally. With Inizjamed, she co-organized literary festivals and workshops, often in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers (LAF). She is currently an active member of Fondazzjoni HELA and PEN Malta. Her work has been translated into several languages and has appeared in a number of collections including Transcript, In Focus, Cúirt 21, Skald, Words without Borders, Novel of the World and Asymptote. Her play L-Interdett Taħt is-Sodda was published in French (Éditions Théâtrales, 2008) and in Arabic (I-ACT, 2009). Azzopardi has also published 2 books of short stories for adults, both of which won the National Book Prize for Literature – Il-Linja l-Ħadra (The Green Line) and Kulħadd ħalla isem warajh (The names they left behind) which was also published in Arabic (Sefsafa), Slovenian (LUD), Hungarian (Noran Libro) and Croatian (VBZ). Her debut novel Castillo has been published in Italian (Mesogea), English (Praspar Press) and Arabic (Elmaraya) and was adapted into a full-length feature film by Take Two.