‘We defended SKS as publishers’ says jury chair Albert Marshall over EUPL disqualification
EU literature prize disqualification: Maltese jury that presented short-list to Brussels says it went back to EUPL with letter justifying SKS’s record as publisher
13 May 2021, 12:08pm
by Matthew Vella
But it defended the corpus of work published by Sensiela Klabb Soċjalisti, in a letter to the EUPL detailing the corpus of work it had published and which included both works of fiction as well as political and party publications.
Jury chair Albert Marshall, who took the place of poet Leanne Ellul after she resigned the post, said it was the EUPL which confirmed that it would not accept an SKS publication because of its party affiliation.
A collection of dolls accompanied by their voices and stories make up the lastest exhibition at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta.
Each doll forming part of Sura – created by Glen Calleja and Lori Sauer − is an attempt at making sense of the human need to create objects in our own likeness.
Their stories were written by popular author Clare Azzopardi, which were translated for the exhibition by Albert Gatt.
The creatives involved say that dolls lie somewhere between the inanimate and the living.
“In play, they embody characters we manipulate. In the hands of the shaman, they are instruments of divine intercession, charged with powerful gods and spirits. In therapy they stand in for loved ones we’ve lost or who hurt us. Their character changes in sync with that of their owner’s. What happens then, when dolls stop speaking?,” they ask.
The literary and journalistic communities are joining forces for the first time in Maltese history to set up a voluntary organisation that seeks to safeguard freedom of expression, among other pursuits.
Writers and journalists are in the process of setting up a PEN Centre in Malta, an offshoot of PEN International – a worldwide association promoting friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers, which fights for freedom of expression and represents the conscience of world literature.
“It’s a first for Malta to have such a diverse group of professionals with unique strengths sitting at the same table, collaborating and advocating for this cause in a structured environment,” said writer Maria Mangion, who officially kicked off the procedure to establish PEN Malta.
€10, ISBN 9789995725051
Tluq is John Aquilina’s second collection of poetry, following Leħnek il-Libsa Tiegħi, which also won the National Book Prize in 2010. The running theme is loss – the kind that keeps on giving and finds form in a poetry which explores the meanings of being a friend, sibling, son, grandson and parent.
Murder on the Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia?
By Carlo Bonini, Manuel Delia, John Sweeney
Midsea Books Ltd
€18, ISBN: 9789993277347
This detailed investigation follows a trail of dirty money and explores how the journalist’s assassination was a blow to those who care for truth.