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These are some of the books written
and/or illustrated and/or edited by Ġorġ Mallia. Click on the
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Books written and illustrated
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Ktieb ix-Xwejjaħ
This book was a
labour of love for nearly ten years, since its inception around
1978 (it began with a picture of an
alien worm looking wistfully
at a star-studded sky)
to its publication by Klabb Kotba Saghtar in 1987.
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Avventura taħt
l-Art
This book is an Enid
Blyton style adventure story for children, written with the
specific intention for it to be fun for kids.
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Il-Kukkudrill
Eroj
This book was
experimental. It was not hand drawn, but generated by computer,
using photographed models which were then processed by Adobe
Photoshop filters (lots of them).
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Adron, Re
ADRON, RE (Adron,
King), started off as a weekly comic strip in the Sunday Maltese
language newspaper, IL-MUMENT. The strip ran from late 1981 to
the first months of 1982.
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Il-kotba ta'
Pullu
A series of books about a boy who
looks like a teddy bear and lives in a world below the ground.
He visits friends above ground, but often goes on adventures in
his home world. A series of books for very young readers
published between 2000 and 2010.
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| A few of the illustrated
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Ħrejjef
tas-Sħarijiet tal-Aħwa Grimm
ĦREJJEF
TAS-SĦARIJIET TAL-AĦWA GRIMM
(The Enchanted
Tales of the Brothers Grimm)
were translated by Ġużi
Mallia
(1917-2004), unanimously known as
In-Nannu Peppu
by children who grew up with his children's programmes on radio
in the fifties and sixties, and published by
Lejn ix-Xefaq,
edited by Sammy Calleja (1952-1998) for whom they became a
labour of love.
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Tlett itfal
iħarsu fis-sema
This book (Three
Children Look Towards the Sky)
was another of my collaborations with Guzi Mallia (no relation),
with whom I had done the
Hrejjef tas-Sharijiet
(Enchanted Tales)
series.
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Dwal
I was just at the
end of my sixth form second year when I came up with the idea
for
DWAL (Lights).
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Taħt Sema Kwiekeb
Ensconsed in
the hard back cover designed by
Trevor Zahra
and myself, and illustrated brilliantly by one of Malta's top
nature illustrators,
Andrew Micallef,
is a collection of Maltese traditional tales, retold by Trevor
himself, and produced by me.
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Tużżana
The idea for what
eventually became
Tuzzana
came to me in August 1997, as I sat alone in a small bedsit in
the student residence block at the University of Twente, the
Netherlands, where I'd gone to meet some of the most active
instructional technologists at the time. In the silence that
only a Sunday evening at a University can generate I got the
germination of the idea for my story "Hemmhekk" ("Over there") -
intended for pre-teens and young teenagers,,and with it came the
thought that there were no short story magazines in which to
publish it, and most certainly none for the age-bracket I had in
mind.
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| Experimental short
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Mill-Art ta' Qatt
u Qatt
My first "official"
collection of short stories, many of which had been previously
published on literary pages in various newspapers and read on
national radio.
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Żgħażugħ bla Isem
This booklet of
experimental, stream of consciousness short stories was
self-published in 1985.
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A Childhood of
Delight
In 1992, PIN
published this heavily illustrated, 169 page critical study
about Trevor Żahra. Dr. Charles Briffa did half of it ... the
bit relating to Trevor's writings, and I did the second half (a
shorter "half", actually) about his illustrations.
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Ways and Measures
This international
collection of papers about Teaching English as a Foreign
Language, was edited by Dr. Charles Mifsud of the Faculty of
Education, University of Malta, and myself, and published by
World Academic in 2000. I also did the production of the book
and designed the cover.
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Il-Kotba
għat-Tfal
When PIN published
its KULLANA KULTURALI (a multi-volume encyclopedia of Maltese
culture), Trevor Żahra was commissioned to write the one about
children's books in Malta. He was the one who invited Charles
Briffa and myself to write a critical appraisal of children's
books and illustrations respectively. Trevor himself supplied
the history section.
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Peter Pan
A book that has
always held an actual as well as symbolic interest for me is J.
M. Barrie's
Peter Pan
- which was really the novel based on his own play.
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Sisien
These were a set of A4 sized books
that I produced from the writing of David Muscat, the co-ordinator
of the Division of Basic Skills at MCAST. The books' editing and
production was co-ordinated by Charles Mifsud, head of the Arts
and Languages in Education Department at the Faculty of
Education, University of Malta.
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