Matthew Schembri

Matthew Schembri (b. 1993) is a multimedia artist, writer and poet based in Malta. He earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Digital Arts in 2017. Schembri won Divergent Thinkers 04 (2015), Shifting Contexts (2019), and was named The Young Artist of the Year in 2017 by Arts Council Malta. In addition to Malta, he exhibited his works and was awarded art and literary residencies in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, and Croatia.
Schembri’s debut novel, Stessi (2018), won The Literary Contest of Novels for Youth in 2016. With his first poetry collection, Ħassartek (2021), he received the Best Emerging Author award from the National Book Council Malta in 2022. The same year, he was one of the winners of the A Sea of Words writing contest IEMed and the Anna Lindh Foundation organised. His work was translated into English, French and Croatian.