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Karmenu Vassallo

Died in 1987

Karmenu Vassallo was born on 18 March 1913 in Siġġiewi, in his grandparents' house. A journalist on Leħen is-Sewwa, then in charge of the literary page of Il-Berqa, he taught Maltese at the Lyceum from 1947 to 1956 and was secretary of the society of Maltese authors. After the death of Dun Karm, there was a wish to make him the national poet, a title he always refused; in 1972 he received the Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi gold medal. He died on 7 April 1987.

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