Loranne Vella

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Loranne Vella is a Maltese writer, translator and performer.

Between 2007-2009 she co-wrote the three volumes of the Fiddien Trilogy with Simon Bartolo, novels which shattered all sales records in the field of literature for children and young adults and are still widely read.

Each of the three volumes won the National Book Prize, and are currently being translated into Spanish. In 2012, Vella’s novel MagnaTM Mater won 2nd prize in the category for young adults. Rokit, her latest novel, is her first novel for adults.

It was published to critical and public acclaim in March 2017, and won the National Book Prize in 2018. Vella has also translated several books for children, two of which won the Terramaxka National Children’s Books Prize in 2015 and 2016.

She lives in Brussels where she also directs the interdisciplinary performance art group Barumbara Collective. Their latest performance - Verbi: Mill-bieb 'il ġewwa - was based on Vella's collection of short stories "mill-bieb 'il ġewwa" (take a look inside (me), which is due for publication later this year.