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[WATCH] Markapaġna | Simone Spiteri
Luke Galea speaks to actress and playwright Simone Spiteri
Luke Galea speaks to actress and playwright Simone Spiteri
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[WATCH] Markapaġna | Glen Calleja
Luke Galea speaks to the artist, writer and bookbinder Glen Calleja
Luke Galea speaks to the artist, writer and bookbinder Glen...
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Comics journalist Joe Sacco at the 2022 Malta Book Festival
Maltese by birth, Sacco grew up in Australia and later in Los Angeles and...
Maltese by birth, Sacco grew up in Australia and later in...
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John Boyne is the international guest of the 2022 Malta Book Festival
Bestselling author John Boyne, known for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,...
Bestselling author John Boyne, known for The Boy in the...
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[WATCH] Markapaġna | Claudia Gauci
In our first episode, Claudia Gauci talks about the memory, nostalgia and vulnerability of the author in Immanuel Mifsud's memoir Fl-Isem tal-Missier (u...
In our first episode, Claudia Gauci talks about the memory,...
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National Book Council announces new literary podcast to promote Maltese books
Markapaġna will air every Tuesday at 6pm from 13 September onwards
Markapaġna will air every Tuesday at 6pm from 13 September...
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Dreams, buildings and bruised sea: Algeria in Lamis Saidi’s poetry
Inizjamed interviews Algerian Lamis Saidi ahead of the upcoming Malta...
Inizjamed interviews Algerian Lamis Saidi ahead of the...
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Results of the Malta Book Fund 2022 announced
The National Book Council announces that 29 projects will be receiving funding...
The National Book Council announces that 29 projects will...
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Ġaħan fl-Aqwa Żmien: a caricature of the Muscat era
Mark Camilleri drinks from the deep and rich well of Mediterranean folklore in...
Mark Camilleri drinks from the deep and rich well of...
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National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize shortlist announced
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 4 November
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 4...
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‘Ġaħan fl-Aqwa Żmien’, Mark Camilleri’s first novel, out in July
The satirical novel represents ‘Ġaħanism’ and the political decadence of the times, what Camilleri – author of political polemic ‘A...
The satirical novel represents ‘Ġaħanism’ and...
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National Book Council unveils official poster for the 2022 Malta Book Festival
The National Book Council has unveiled its official poster for the 2022 Malta Book Festival putting the spotlight on illustrators and graphic designers
The National Book Council has unveiled its official poster...
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2022 Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest now open for entries
Annual contest celebrating the best poetry written in Maltese,...
Annual contest celebrating the best poetry...
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Press charges: Malta wartime reporters invented ‘Italian coward’ myth
How they reported the war: Martin G. Debattista’s ‘The Front Page on the Front Line – The Maltese Newspapers and the Second World...
How they reported the war: Martin G....
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Philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation, speaks in Malta visit
One of the best known living professors of philosopher, anti-poverty and animal liberation campaigner Peter Singer, to deliver annual philosophy lecture
One of the best known living professors of philosopher,...
![National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize long list announced](http://content.maltatoday.com.mt/ui_frontend/thumbnail/300/0/10_2.png)
National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize long list announced
The National Book Prize has drawn a record number of submissions with 199 total...
The National Book Prize has drawn a record number of...
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Up close with the creators of ‘Mibdul’, Malta’s first serialised comic for adults
Teodor Reljić and Inez Kristina on creating Malta’s first-ever serialised comic book series ‘Mibdul’
Teodor Reljić and Inez Kristina on...
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A taste of his own violence: Mur Ġibek... turns the tables on the war on women
Irene Chias provides an inverted rendering of the gratuitous violence of Anthony Burgess’s novel, this time wielded not by Alex and his droogs, but by...
Irene Chias provides an inverted rendering of the...