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  • PoetryIl-Ġifen TorkGiovanni Antonio Vassallo · 1842not translated into EnglishMalta is then a British colony, and Italian dominates education and letters there.Literature
  • NovelElvira jew Imħabba ta' TirannGiuseppe Folliero de Luna · 1863not translated into EnglishAt the origins of the Maltese novel, a book written by a teacher of Neapolitan origin in the middle of the nineteenth century.Literature
  • NovelIneż FarruġAnton Manwel Caruana · 1889not translated into EnglishIn Malta, a British colony, Italian remains the language of the educated, and Maltese does not yet have a settled alphabet.Literature
  • TaleOld Folktales of the Maltese IslandsĦrejjef MissirijietnaManwel Magri · 1902At the beginning of the twentieth century, Maltese does not yet have a fixed spelling, and Italian still dominates the letters of the island.Literature
  • NovelShadows of the TruthLeli ta' Ħaż-ŻgħirĠużè Ellul Mercer · 1938The author, an activist of the Labour Party, had seen his satirical stories condemned by the Church ten years earlier.Literature
  • PoetryIl-Jien u lil hinn minnuDun Karm · 1938not translated into EnglishA Maltese priest, alone before the silence of God, between doubt and faith, in a long poem in the Maltese language.Literature
  • PoetryNirienKarmenu Vassallo · 1938not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a Maltese Romantic poet, the singer of suffering and of the search for God.Literature
  • NovelTaħt Tliet SaltnietĠużè Aquilina · 1938not translated into EnglishThe historical novel of a young lawyer from Gozo, who was to become the great lexicographer of the Maltese language.Literature
  • NovelAħna SinjuriJoseph J. Camilleri · 1965not translated into EnglishA Maltese novel of the 1960s, by a schoolteacher and educationist of the literary revival movement.Literature