1939 born, Austrian citizen, Gymnasium of Benedictine monastery St. Paul in Carinthia, Commercial High School in Klagenfurt, University of Vienna (Law), Magister iuris.

Professional life: For 35 year career in Austrian international trading groups including overseas ship transportations; Chief Executive Officer; lifelong worldwide travels.

Ray Cuschieri is a Senior Lecturer I with the department of Computing & I.T. at the University of Malta Junior College. He obtained a BSc in Maths & Computing, after which he did a PGCE course to gain a teaching warrant. He started teaching computer-related topics at the Institute of Tourism Studies in 1992 and in 1996 he joined the University Junior College teaching Advanced Level and Intermediate Computing. Mr Cuschieri also serves as a paper marker for Computing Examinations of a major examination board.

Rita Grech, awtriċi ta’ rumanzi bil-Malti. Twieldet fl-1975 u hija minn Bormla. Ilha tikteb għal dawn l-aħħar għaxar snin.

S’issa ppubblikat 22 rumanz. Fosthom Markuż li hu pubblikazzjoni ta’ BDL Books. Il-ġeneru favorit tagħha huma l-kotba għall-adolexxenti. Tieħu gost ħafna tikteb għal din l-età għax taħseb li hija età partikolari fejn jidħol qari, peress li mhux faċli jsibu xi ħaġa li tassew iżżommhom biex ikomplu jaqraw. Tħobb tibbaża l-istejjer tagħha fuq ir-realtà. L-ikbar sodisfazzjon għaliha huwa meta jgħidulha li l-kotba tagħha jintgħoġbu.

Robert Thake holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Malta and is currently reading for a Doctor of Laws degree at the same university as well as a Masters of Laws degree with the University of London. He has conducted research in connection with book history in libraries and archives in Malta, France, Italy and England and has published several papers on the subject in local journals.  In 2011 he published a paper entitled:  A largely unexplored account of the Great Siege in which he set forth conclusive evidence as to the authorship of one of the earliest accounts of the Great Siege. The author is also an avid collector of Melitensia. His main areas of interest are Melitensia, Malta in the eighteenth century, prohibited literature, anonymous publications and book history.

Born Ħ’Attard. Before leaving for Australia with his family, he read the Classics (Latin & Greek) together with Maltese, English & Italian at Floriana Seminary. Aged 16 Bovingdon disembarked at Woolloomooloo, Sydney on 14/01/1959. Having left college prematurely owing to the family’s move, some years after arrival he completed his secondary education to matriculation level through night school. In the total absence of facilities to include Maltese in this itinerary, he pursued his goal to finality through the Oxford Delgacy of Examinations, UK, thus pioneering the way for all other potential candidates in similar circumstances to sit for Maltese in Australia. With no teachers of Maltese anywhere in Australia, he self taught and passed in Advanced Level Maltese by proxy through Oxford. Meanwhile he graduated with his first degree as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), equivalent to B.Sc. in Applied Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry, followed by six other post graduate nursing qualifications. He undertook further advanced tertiary studies obtaining Diplomas in Nursing Administration (DipNAdmin.) from the University of NSW, in Health Counselling (DipHCouns) and in Medical Terminology (DipMT), followed by one year in advanced Italian Literature and the basics of Arabic all through Sydney University. At the University of New England, NSW, he read Philosophy and English Literature for another year. Granted a special scholarship by the Government of Malta he completed 1981-82 reading towards a five year Bachelor of Education course at MU  with Maltese as the main subject. These studies were interrupted by the sudden fatal illness of his father back in Sydney, necessitating him to return to Australia prematurely. In 1994 he was again granted a Malta Government scholarship to specialise in Maltese. He graduated (BAHons), cum laudae from UM in 1998. Back in Sydney with his fresh qualifications in Maltese, he procured the NSW Education Minister’s approval to establish the Maltese Language School of NSW with the added backing of the Maltese Community Council of NSW and key individuals hand picked by Bovingdon himself. Fortified by these academic successes he embarked on a series of peer reviewed monographs presented to international conferences on Maltese Linguistics. In the interim he further enriched his grasp of Maltese, again as an autodidact, in the related languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician/Punic and Hieroglyphics whilst further supplanting his time by giving lectures on Maltese Art, Literature, History, Archaeology and Maltese Settlement in Australia at various tertiary institutions. – Through the auspices of the Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), Australia, he also qualified as Broadcaster/Journalist.

Prior to the above named Maltese school Bovingdon had already pioneered the first ever Maltese Language School in Australia (1968), this being the first ever school of Maltese anywhere in the world outside of Malta.

Ronald Bugeja twieled tal-Pietà fl-1978 u joqgħod is-Siġġiewi. Spiċċa l-edukazzjoni tiegħu fl-iskola tas-snajja’ Abraham Gatt, Bighi, ġewwa l-Kalkara, fejn ikkwalifika fis-sengħa tal-elettriku. Ronald komplabl-istudji tiegħu fejn iggradwa b’diploma fis-City & Guilds fis-sengħa u l-arti tal-elettriku ġewwa l-Kullegg Tradeskills fi Crawley ġewwa l-Ingilterra.

Ħuwa membru sħiħ fl-assoċjazzjoni tal-istoriċi u riċerkaturi ġewwa Verein für Geschichte der stadt f’Nürenberg, il-Ġermanja, u PRO fl-Assoċjazzjoni Glarac Malta, li tirrappreżenta l-baħrin li mietu fl-għarqa traġika tal-HMS Glorious. Ronald Bugeja llum imlaħħaq bħala fizzjal  ġewwa l-Faċilità Korrettiva ta’ Kordin.

Ronald Camilleri twieled l-isptar San Luqa fil-5 ta’ Diċembru 1983. Sa mill-bidu kien joqgħod l-Isla u għadu jgħix hemm sal-lum. Sa minn mindu kien għadu żgħir beda jattendi l-iskola primarja tal-Isla u ta’ għaxar snin mar jistudja il-Verdala Junior Lyceum f’Bormla sal-1999. Wara għamel sena jistudja fil-Higher Secondry n-Naxxar u ttrasferixxa ruħu f’Paolino Vassallo Upper Secondry Raħal Ġdid, illum MCAST.

Wara għamel sentejn l-MCAST fejn spiċċa l-istudji bl-livell avvanzat fl-istudji tal-Ingliż u l-Malti. Sa minn mindu kien għadu żgħir kien jinteressa ruħu fil-qari. Illum il-ġurnata nispira ruħi minn awturi Amerikani bħal John Grisham u Vince Flynn. Għalkemm l-ispirazzjoni ġejja prinċipaljament minn hemm fejn tidħol stil ta’ kitba, il-qofol tal-kitba huwa kompletament oriġinali u m’għandu affiljazzjoni ma’ ħadd iktar.