Mark Calleja twieled fit-2 ta’ Diċembru 1972 u trabba ġewwa r-raħal ta’ Ħal Balzan. Sa minn età żgħira, Mark kien iħobb ħafna l-qari bil-Malti kif ukoll it-teatru. Minkejja li ħadem f’diversi impjiegi differenti, l-għaxar snin li għamel jaħdem mal-Media Centre Ltd bħala script writer u producer komplew jgħinuh jiżviluppa t-talent tiegħu f’dik li hi kitba. Minbarra diversi drammi teatrali li kiteb u pproduċa, kien hemm ukoll dawk televiżivi bħalma kienu s-serje five06, Marvin u Ħannieqa. Madankollu, l-iktar żewġ programmi li kien iffokat fuqhom għal diversi snin kienu Kurrenti u QalbinNies, fejn il-kitba kienet iddur mal-esperjenzi u stejjer reali tan-nies. Wara li Mark ingħata ċertifikat minn The Writers’ Bureau bħala pubblikatur, beda jaħdem iżjed fuq stili ta’ rumanzi, bl-ewwel wieħed ikun Il-Barbazzal. Bħalissa Mark qed jaħdem ukoll fuq serje ta’ kotba ta’ avventuri għat-tfal u jaħdem fil-qasam tal-gwida tal-karrieri fil-Kulleġġ San Injazju. 

Twieled il-Mosta. Studja l-Università ta’ Malta fejn iggradwa bħala accountant. Il-passatemp ewlieni tiegħu huwa l-fotografija, u fil-fatt huwa membru tal-Malta Photographic Society. Huwa wkoll dilettant tal-festi, u jieħu ħsieb sit elettroniku dwar il-Mosta b’enfasi speċjali fuq festi u ċelebrazzjonijiet. Jikteb regolarment f’pubblikazzjonijiet tal-festa. Dawn l-aħħar seba’ snin, Mark Micallef intefa’ b’ruħu u ġismu fuq proġett ambizzjuż li bih qed jiddokumenta fotografikament il-festi kollha li huma ċċelebrati f’Malta u Għawdex.

Born in Mosta.  Studied at the Universityof Maltawhere he graduated as an accountant.  His preferred hobby is photography, and is a member of the MaltaPhotographic Society.  He is keenly interested in all aspects of Maltese festa celebrations, and directs a website about his home town, with special emphasis on feasts and celebrations. He is also a regular contributor on festa publications. Over the past seven years Mark Micallef has embarked on the present ambitious project of photographically documenting all festa celebrations across Maltaand Gozo.

Marthese Fenech was born the youngest of five to Maltese parents in Toronto. She has traveled extensively across four continents, and in the course of researching for Eight-Pointed Cross, spent time in Malta, Turkey, Italy, France—a wealth of fascinating places that introduced her to her characters and their cultures in a most authentic way.

When she was twelve, she lived in Malta for six months, enrolling in an all-girls private school run by nuns. She lasted three days before getting kicked out for talking too much. Back in Toronto, she started her own business recording, editing, and selling bootleg heavy metal concerts. While in high school, she took a position with a popular seafood chain as its first female dishwasher. She later worked with special needs children and adults, where witnessing small miracles on a daily basis was part of the job.

Twieled 1957

Martin Formosa huwa artist mill-Qrendi u jħaddan l-istil tar-realiżmu fil-pittura tiegħu.  Huwa juża l-aktar is-soft pastel bħala medium għalkemm għandu xogħlijiet oħrajn biż-żejt u bl-akwarella.  Ħa sehem f’diversi wirjiet kollettivi u x-xogħlijiet tiegħu jinsabu f’diversi kollezzjonijiet privati f’Malta u wkoll barra.

Martin Morana twieled u għex għal ħafna żmien il-Birgu. Studja l-Liċeo u ggradwa B.A. fl-Istorja mill-Università ta’ Malta. Fost suġġetti oħra waqt l-istudji tiegħu mess ħafna mas-suġġetti tal-Arkeoloġija u l-Antropoloġija tal-Mediterran. Ħadem għal bosta snin mad-Dipartiment tal-Mużewijiet Statali. Ilu jaħdem għal dawn l-aħħar għoxrin sena fl-Awtorità Maltija tat-Turiżmu, fejn għal bosta snin kien promotur tal-prodott turistiku Malti ma’ mijiet ta’ nies tal-midja barranija. Għal dawn l-aħħar snin kien involut fl-organizzazzjoni ta’ ħafna avvenimenti fuq livell nazzjonali. Kiteb ukoll ħafna artikli fuq l-istorja ta’ Malta f’diversi pubblikazzjonijiet. Ħareġ ukoll żewġ monografi fuq riċerka li hu kien għamel, wieħed dwar l-Ipoġew u l-ieħor dwar Għar Dalam. Morana hu wkoll gwida liċenzjat f’diversi lingwi.

Martin Morana ħareġ il-ktieb Bejn Kliem u Storja fl-2011 u fl-2012 ħareġ Ara x’Int Tgħid. Biex il-Kliem Ikun Sew ġie ppubblikat fl-2014. Dawn it-tliet kotba huma kollha relatati ma’ kliem antik Malti u s-sinifikat tiegħu matul iż-żmien.

Mevrick Spiteri holds a B.A. History and Archaeology from the University of Malta and an M.A. from the International Institute for Baroque Studies, University of Malta. His research interests lie in historical landscape studies through an economic and social history, focusing on aspects of development, property, land use, and the transformation of space. He has published extensively on the reconstruction of urban environments, especially on Valletta and on related subjects including the building industry, legislation, the Officio delle Case, cabrei, and Maltese periti in the early modern period.

Michael Cassar has lived within sight and sound of the Grand Harbour for as long as he cares to remember. A life long career in teaching and administration did little to dampen his enthusiasm for anything that happened around the Grand Harbour and he has not yet tired of its siren like call to take photographs or merely spend time gazing at the breathtaking vista from the Upper Barracca Gardens.

Born in Valletta 14.12.1932, Galea studied at the Lyceum and the UM where he obtained a diploma in public administration (1960). He also has a German Language Proficiency Certificate from the Friedrich Alexander Universitat, Nuremberg (1968). Galea joined the civil service and carried out duties of an administrative officer, retiring in  1993 as assistant head of department. He also taught German at the German Maltese Circle and was invested with the silver medal Pro Merito Melitense of the Order of St John (1995).

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Imwieled fl-1955, studja fil Liċeo (Għawdex) u wara fl-Università ta’ Malta. Fl-1979 ħa d-Diploma ta’ Nutar u s-sena ta’ wara ggradwa fil-Liġi. Bejn l-1979 u l-2010 ħadem ta’ nutar pubbliku f’Għawdex. Fl-1998 beda kors ta’ B.A. fl-Istorja u l-Filosofija part-time u ggradwa fl-2003. Fl-2009 kiseb Ph.D. mill-Università ta’ Malta bit-teżi “The Maltese Commercial Class 1870-1914. Business, Family, Networks.” It-teżi ġiet sussegwentement ippubblikata mill-Università ta’ Pisa. Kiteb diversi papers li ġew ippubblikati f’rivisti tal-istorja kemm Malta kif ukoll fl-Ewropa. Il-ktieb tiegħu The Maltese Nineteenth-Century Notary and His Archives rebaħ il-Premju tal-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ktieb fl-2015. L-aħħar ktieb tiegħu jismu Waking the Dead. Nineteenth-Century Obituaries as a Mirror of Maltese Society (1815 – c. 1910).

Mikiel Anton Vassalli (March 5, 1764 in Żebbuġ, Malta – January 12, 1829) was a Maltese writer, a philosopher, and a linguist who published important Maltese language books, including a Maltese-Italian dictionary, a Maltese grammar book, the first Protestant Gospels in Maltese, and towards the end of his life, a book on Maltese proverbs.

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