The
National Book Prize chaired by Ġorġ
Mallia organised the 40th edition of the National Book
Prize at the Auberge de Castille, under the auspices of
the Prime Minister of Malta, Dr Laurence Gonzi, on the
3rd November, 2011.
A photo
a day of a habitual trip to Southern Sweden (with forays
up to Western Sweden and to all parts of Denmark) was
published 'as it happened' on Facebook in August 2011. A
collation of the photos and the brief blogs that
accompanied them can be downloaded as a pdf HERE. A visual diary
and some insightful thoughts.
[September 1, 2011]
The Novels for
Adolescents Prize
On
Friday, April 9, 2011 the Parliamentary Secretary for
Youth and Sport, the Hon. Clyde Puli, and Dr
Ġorġ Mallia, chairman of the National
Book Council, presented the prizes to the winners of the
second Novels for Adolescents Prize, co-organised by the
Youth Agency and the National Book Council. The two
winning books will be co-published by the two entities
and a leading publisher.
[April 9, 2011]
Presentation of Survey
on Reading in Malta
On April
5, 2011, the Hon Minister of Education, Employment and
Family, Dolores Cristina, with Dr Ġorġ Mallia, Chairman
of the National Book Council, and Mr Sergio Grech,
Executive Director, presented the findings of the
national survey on book reading in Malta run by MISCO
Ltd. on behalf of the Council, in which it was found
that 86% of Maltese fit the profile of a reader. A list
of some of the main findings of the survey can be found
on www.ktieb.org.mt,
Aġġornamenti.
[April 5, 2011]
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Book Donation by the
National Book Council
It has
become an annual tradition that the National Book
Council donates books to the National Library for use of
its many borrowers. This year, close to €5000 worth of books
were handed over by the chairman of the Council, Dr Ġorġ
Mallia, to Ms Joanne Sciberras, Officer in Charge of the
National Library. The ceremony was held at the Exelscior
Hotel in Floriana, and it also doubled as an occasion in
which gratitude was shown to the judges of the National
Book Prize, many of whom attended. Also in the photo are
Mr Sergio Grech (Executive Director) and Mr Joe
Debattista (Secretary).
[April 2, 2011]
The National Book Prize
at Castille
The
National Book Prize ceremony, this time for books
published in 2009, was once again held in prestigious
surroundings at the Auberge de Castille, under the
auspices of the Prime Minister of Malta, the Hon.
Lawrence Gonzi. The ceremony was held on January 20,
2011. In this photo the National Book Council is seen in
the Prime Minister's office. Dr Ġorġ
Mallia, chairman of the Council, is standing in between
the Hon. Minister of Education, Employment and Family,
Dolores Cristina, and the Hon. Prime Minister, Dr Gonzi.
Other members of the council are, from left to right, Mr
Victor Fenech, Mr Trevor Żahra, Mr Henry Cachia, Ms
Joanne Sciberras, Mr Sergio Grech, Mr Joe Debattista, Mr
Charles Casha, Ms Victoria Galea, Ms Priscilla Camilleri
and Ms Martes Paris.
[January 20, 2011]
The Malta Book Fair
2010
Another roaring success
for the National Book Council. The Malta Book Fair, held
at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, drew
its habitual c. 16,000 visitors. This year the book fair
was held between the 10th and 14th November. The launch
was on the 9th. The photo is from that. From left to
right, Victoria Galea, Martes Paris, Victor Fenech, the
Hon. Dolores Cristina, Minister of Education, Employment
and Family, Dr Ġorġ Mallia, chairman of
the National Book Council, Joanne Sciberras, officer in
charge of the National Library of Malta, Sergio Grech,
Executive Director of the National Book Council, Charles
Casha, Joe Debattista, Secretary of the National Book
Council, Trevor Żahra, and Priscilla Camilleri.
[November 15, 2010]
The Swedish Comics
Academy
For the eighth year, Dr
Ġorġ Mallia has addressed the first year
students at the Swedish Comics School, newly situated at
the Kulturhus Mazetti. This wonderful school for budding
young comic artists, run so ably by Fredrik Strömberg
and Gunnar Krantz, is helping Malmö become the Swedish
centre for comics excellence. It is an honour to be
associated with it.
[September 19, 2010]
The Scream 2010
For the sixteenth year,
the students doing the Printing Processes unit at the
Centre for Communication Technology, at the University
of Malta, have published The Scream: a labour of
love (and much argument) that they have now completely
distributed and are justifiably proud of. As I am, as
their course tutor. The magazine was launched at a party
at Chequers Club (in Paceville) on April 28. The
Scream website is also up and running, and can be
found here.
[May 10, 2010]
The new National Book
Council's first public event
The new National Book
Council was set up in March 2010. Dr
Ġorġ Mallia was confirmed as chairman. The council is
also made up of
Joe
Debattista (Secretary), Sergio Grech
(Executive Director), Marisa Attard, Henry Cachia,
Priscilla Camilleri, Charles Casha, Victor Fenech,
Victoria Galea, Martes Paris, Joanne Sciberras, Trevor
Żahra, Dr William Zammit (Members). The Council's
first public event was the donation of 4, 700 Euros
worth of books to the Libraries Department. The occasion
also served to honour those who sat on the adjudicating
panels of the National Book Prize for books published in
2008. In the photo can be seen, from left to right, Dr
Josette Attard, Fr Norbert Ellul Vincenti, Mr Joe
Debattista, Mr Sergio Grech, Ms Joanne Sciberras, Dr
Ġorġ Mallia, H.E. President Emeritus Edward Fenech
Adami, Mr Charles Coleiro, Ms Maria Pace, Dr Charles
Pace, Mr Guido Lanfranco, Mr Charles Galea Scannura, Dr
Joe Grima, and Mr Horace Portelli. These were among
those who attended the book donation ceremony.
[May 8, 2010]
PULLU takes a bow
After a five-year
hiatus, the last of the PULLU books for young children
has been published, in time for this year's Book Fair.
Pullu u d-Dinja Nadifa (Pullu and the Clean World)
has an ecological undercurrent, and it also brings to an
end the series of books (six in all) that have proved so
popular with Maltese children.
[November 12, 2009]
The 25th edition of the
Malta Book Fair
The Mediterranean
Conference Centre in Valletta becomes a mecca for book
lovers in Malta between the 11th and the 15th November
as the 25th edition of the Malta Book Fair goes into
overdrive. Twenty participants have filled the great
hall to the end, and many thousands of books are the
main exhibits. In the first photo, Minister for
Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, the Hon. Dolores
Cristina, is seen giving her speech as she opens the
fair on November 10, with members of the National Book
Council standing behind her. From left to right, Dr
Ġorġ Mallia (chairman), Mr Philip Borg,
Mr Joe Debattista (secretary), Mr Charles Casha, Mr
Trevor Żahra, Mr Sergio Grech (Executive Director), Ms
Victoria Galea, and Ms Marisa Attard. In the second
photo, taken on November 11, the Prime Minister of
Malta, the Hon. Dr Lawrence Gonzi, admires a book in the
presence of the Council chairman.
[November 11, 2009]
The National Book
Council in full swing
The latest incarnation
of the National Book Council (Il-Kunsill
Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb), chaired by
Ġorġ Mallia, is working simulataneously in a number of
areas, preparing a law about the Maltese book, in the
initial stages of a nation wide research on reading,
organising a writing contest to promote literature for
young adults, just out of the Maltese Book Fair at the
Auberge d'Italie, constantly updating its books-in-print
register, about to issue the call for submissions for
the National Book Prize, in the preparation stages for a
national radio programme, in touch with Malta's
ambassadors abroad to help diffuse information about
Maltese books, writers and publishers abroad ... and
generally working in all areas that help promote books.
And the National Book Council even has its FACEBOOK page
(click
here to enter). The present incarnation of the
council is made up of (from left to right) Charles
Casha, Philip Borg, Joe Debattista (Secretary), Dr
William Zammit, Charles Caruana Carabez, Victoria Galea,
Dr Ġorġ Mallia (Chairman), Marisa Attard, Martes Paris,
Priscilla Camilleri, Sergio Grech (Executive Director),
and Trevor Żahra.
[June 25, 2009]
Maltese cartoonists at
the Hellenic Parliament
Maltese cartoonists
Ġorġ
Mallia and Maurice Tanti Burlò were
among cartoonists from all the countries in the European
Union participating in the prestigious exhibition
at the Greek Parliament in Athens, entitled:
“Political Cartoons in Europe of
27”.
The exhibition was organised by the Hellenic Parliament,
in cooperation
with the Greek Cartoonists Association
and was officially opened on Monday, October 13, 2008.
The exhibition runs till October 25. It was held to
celebrate cartoon art and its journalistic impact on
society throughout the European Union. The participating
cartoonists were hosted by the Parliament itself during
celebrations held in honour of the popular art. Dr
Mallia and Mr Tanti Burò were invited personally by the
Hellenic Parliament to submit three published
representative cartoons. Allied newspapers cartoonist
Maurice Tanti Burlò exhibited cartoons published
locally, and Ġorġ Mallia has shown cartoons from The
Economic Update and a One Family comic strip
from The Sunday Times.
[October 13, 2008]
Workshop in Corfu,
Greece
Ġorġ Mallia
gave a workshop on
New Technology induced Social and Cognitive change and
implications for the Tertiary Classroom
during
the
ICICTE conference held on Corfu, Greece.
The workshop was well-attended, and an active and
dynamic discussion ensued, providing some useful
suggestions regarding how to adapt the University
classroom to the changes in learners who are active new
media and social software users.
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