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National Book Council
The National Book Council (), is a Malta, Maltese public entity dedicated to the promotion of the book industry in Malta. The council organises the Malta Book Festival (), The Literary Contest of Novels for Youth (Maltese: ''Konkors ta' Kitba Letteratura għaż-Żgħażagħ'') and other national and regional events, workshops, seminars and contests. It also confers the National Book Prize (), administers Public Lending Rights, and is Malta's registration agent for ISBN registration agency, ISBN and ISMN. History The National Book Council (NBC) was established by the Government of Malta in 2001 through subsidiary Legislation 605.12, operating under the remit of the Ministry for Education. Since its inception, the NBC has played a pivotal role in nurturing and developing the Maltese book industry, and in fostering Malta's literary culture by supporting authors, publishers, and readers through various initiatives, contests, and events. The NBC, therefore, acts as both a regula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two official languages are Maltese language, Maltese and English language, English. The country's capital is Valletta, which is the smallest capital city in the EU by both area and population. It was also the first World Heritage Site, World Heritage City in Europe to become a European Capital of Culture in 2018. With a population of about 542,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, tenth-smallest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population density, ninth-most densely populated. Various sources consider the country to consist of a single urban region, for which it is often described as a city-state. Malta has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, during the Mesolith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Żahra
Trevor Żahra (born 16 December 1947) is a Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator. He has published over 120 books in the Maltese language since 1971. Biography Trevor Żahra was born on 16 December 1947 in Żejtun. He worked as a school teacher for over three decades, teaching art and the Maltese language in government schools. He was married to Stella née Agius from 1971 until her death in 1989, and together they had two children called Ruben and Marija. In 1971 Żahra published his first novel, a children's adventure book entitled ''Il-Pulena tad-Deheb'' (Maltese for "The Golden Figurehead"). Since then he has published over 120 books written in Maltese. He has written both children's and adult novels, as well as short stories, poetry, workbooks and translations. He is the best-selling Maltese author in history. Żahra illustrates his children's books with his own drawings. He also designed a set of two EUROPA postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of pape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Organizations Established In 2001
The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices involving creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation. The arts encompass diverse and plural modes of thought, deeds, and existence in an extensive range of media. Both a dynamic and characteristically constant feature of human life, the arts have developed into increasingly stylized and intricate forms. This is achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training, or theorizing within a particular tradition, generations, and even between civilizations. The arts are a medium through which humans cultivate distinct social, cultural, and individual identities while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life, and experiences across time and space. The arts are divided into three main branches. Examples of visual arts include architecture, ceramic art, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpture. Examples of literature include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Organisations Based In Malta
Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). ''Primitive Culture''. Vol 1. New York: J. P. Putnam's Son Culture often originates from or is attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese Literature
Maltese literature is any literature originating from Malta or by Maltese writers or literature written in the Maltese language. This article will give an overview of the history of Maltese-language literature. History Written Maltese As Maltese evolved after Count Roger I of Sicily ended Arab rule on the island at the end of the 11th century, there was little interest in developing a written form of the language. Initially only the clergy, aristocracy and bourgeoisie were able to read and write and much of their communication was conducted in Latin. Throughout the centuries use of the Maltese language was often discouraged with varying enthusiasm, ostensibly in the hope that supplanting it would strengthen ties with the country which held possession of Malta at that particular point in time. Under the Knights of St John both Italian and French were used for official documents and correspondence. During the British colonial period the use of English was encouraged throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ganado
Albert Ganado MOM (born 9 March 1924) is a Maltese lawyer and historian. He is a past president of the Malta Historical Society & the founder and president of the Malta Map Society. He released his memoirs in 2020. Some of his publications have won awards in different categories of the National Book Prize by the National Book Council. Ganado turned 100 in March 2024. Selected publications * ''Malta in British and French Caricature 1798 – 1815''. Said International, 1989. (With Joseph C. Sammut) * ''A Study in Depth of 143 Maps Representing the Great Siege of Malta of 1565''. Publishers Enterprise Group, 1994. (With Maurice Agius-Vadala) * ''Palace of the Grand Masters in Valletta''. Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 2001. * ''Miniature Maps of Malta''. Midsea Books, 2009. * ''German Malta Maps''. BDL Publishing, 2011. (With Joseph Schirò) * ''The Brocktorff Mapmakers''. BDL Publishing, 2012. (With Joseph Schirò & Claude Micallef Attard) * ''Malta in World War II: Contem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Bonello
Giovanni Bonello (born 11 June 1936 in Floriana) is a Maltese judge, judge of the European Court of Human Rights from 1998 until 2004, then extended till 2010. Biography His father, Vincenzo Bonello, was the curator of the national art collection in the interwar period, and among the Maltese patriots, like Enrico Mizzi, who were deported and interned in Uganda by the British colonial administration during World War II.The many hats of Giovanni Bonello The Malta Independent Giovanni Bonello studied law and practiced for the first decades of his professional career, specializing in constitutional and human rights litigation in newly-independent . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Lanfranco
Guido Lanfranco, MQR (18 October 1930 – 8 September 2021) was a Maltese writer on natural history and folklore. Early life and education Lanfranco was born in Sliema, Malta, on 18 October 1930. He was educated at Stella Maris College and St. Michaels College of Education. He pursued other courses at the University of Malta and Dale Field Studies Centre in Wales. Career Lanfranco was a teacher in various schools and a member of many educational boards and committees as well as local and foreign scientific societies. He was the first president of the Natural History Society of Malta, the Din L-Art Ħelwa and various other societies, and president of the Malta Folklore Society. Awards and honours He was awarded the Bronze Medal of Merit by the Conference of Civic Councils in 1969, and the Midalja għall-Qadi tar-Repubblika (M.Q.R.) in 1996. In 2004 Lanfranco won the annual Literary Prize on Folklore awarded by the Maltese National Book Council. Other achievement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Friggieri
Joe Friggieri (born 1946) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Malta, poet, playwright and theatre director. Biography Friggieri was the first professor of philosophy on the University of Malta faculty not to be a Catholic priest and succeeded Peter Serracino Inglott in 1996 upon the latter's retirement. He holds doctorates from the University of Milan (Cattolica) and The University of Oxford. Friggieri has been guest research scholar and lecturer at the Universities of Venice, Amsterdam, St Andrews, Augsburg and Genova. He is currently a professor at the University of Malta and previously was a member of the Senate of the same University. Friggieri's publications include three volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, a number of plays, as well as two volumes entitled ''In-Nisġa tal-Ħsieb'', the first history of philosophy publications in Maltese. ''In-Nisġa tal-Ħsieb'' is also compulsory reading for philosophy students in Malta. He has won severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Friggieri
Oliver Friggieri (27 March 194721 November 2020) was a Malta, Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese language, Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm Psaila, Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others. A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the Libretto, libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, ''Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri'' (No Flowers Grow in Parliament, 1986), attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics. From philosophy, he was mostly interested in epistemology and existentialism.Mark Montebello, ''Il-Ktieb tal-Filosofija f’Malta'' (''A Source Book of Philosophy in Malta''), PIN Publications, Malta, 2001. Early life and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ebejer
Francis Ebejer (28 August 1925, Dingli — 10 June 1993, St. Julian's, St Julian's) was a Malta, Maltese dramatist and novelist. Francis Ebejer was the father of the Maltese painter Damian Ebejer Biography Ebejer studied medicine at the University of Malta between 1942 and 1943 before abandoning the course to work as an English-Italian interpreter with the 8th Army of the British Forces in Tripolitania, North Africa (1943–44). After the war he became a teacher in England. Upon completion of St Mary's University College, Twickenham, St Mary's Training College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (1948–50), he was appointed a primary school head teacher in Malta, a post he held till 1977. Ebejer wrote seven full-length novels in English, and another one in Maltese language, Maltese, all published. His final novel, ''The Maltese Baron and I Lucian'' was published in 2002, nine years after the author's death. Other novels by Ebejer include ''A Wreath of Maltese Innocents'' (1958), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
