The National Book Council wishes to announce that the National Book Prize finalists for 2015 have just been shortlisted. The shortlist composed by the Independent Adjudication Board of the National Book Prize serves as a sample of the best books published locally in the previous year. These books are available for purchase from all general bookstores or at the upcoming Malta Book Festival, November 4th โ€“ 8th, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta.

 

Literary Work: The Novel

L-Iskjav taโ€™ Isabel by Audrey Friggieri (Horizons)

Jutta Heim by Immanuel Mifsud (Klabb Kotba Maltin)

Fi Nลผul ix-Xemx Sabiฤง by Pupull Debattista Borg (Dom Communications Ltd.)

Bajjuni Nฤกurmati by John Charles Betts (Klabb Kotba Maltin)

Two by Teodor Reljiฤ‡ (Merlin Publishers)

Iลผ-ลปeffiena tal-Kerubini by Carlo O. Dโ€™Emanuele (Horizons)

 

Literary Work: The Short Story

Feruti by Carmel Scicluna (Horizons)

Kulฤงadd ฤงalla isem warajh by Clare Azzopardi (Merlin Publishers)

INSANIAM by Edgar Formosa (Horizons)

Satin by Rita Saliba (Horizons)

 

Literary Work: Poetry

Epistoli mid-deลผert – Poeลผiji u Poesaฤกฤกi by Mario Azzopardi (Horizons)

Fi Triqti Lejha by Walid Nabhan (Klabb Kotba Maltin)

taฤงt il-kpiepel tโ€™gฤงajnejja by Maria Grech Ganado (Klabb Kotba Maltin)

Klessidra: Versi taลผ-ลปmien Maฤงrub by Lilian Sciberras (Horizons)

Mirja โ€“ ฤฆamsin Sena taโ€™ Poeลผija 1963-2013 by Philip Sciberras (Sciberras Associates Publishing)

 

Literary Work: Drama

Jum il-ฤฆaqq by Doris Vella Camilleri (Self Published)

 

General Research

Bormla: A Struggling Community by Josann Cutajar (Faraxa Publishing)

Translation Studies from Malta ed. by Charles Briffa (Malta University Publishing)

Musical Instruments of the Maltese Islands: History, Folkways and Traditions by Anna Borg Cardona (Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti)

Shostakovich, Britten, Stravinsky and the Painters in Between: 1936 by Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci (Horizons)

Does it matter who speaks? Postmodern Papers on Politics, Ethics and Education by Kenneth Wain (Malta University Press)

The Maltese Nineteenth-Century Notary and his Archives by Michael Refalo (Book Distributors Limited)

 

Historiographic Research

The Social and Religious History of a Maltese Parish: St. Maryโ€™s Qrendi in the Eighteenth Century by Frans Ciappara (Malta University Press)

Journal of Maltese Studies 28: Essays on the Cantilena ed. by Dr. Bernard Micallef (Midsea Books Limited)

M.A. Vassalli 1764-1829 – An Enlightened Maltese Reformer by Frans Ciappara (Midsea Books Limited)

France in the Maltese Collective Memory – Perceptions, Perspectives, Identities after Bonaparte in British Malta by Charles Xuereb (Malta University Press)

Mattia Preti – Saints and Heroes for the Knights of Malta by Cynthia de Giorgio (Midsea Books Limited)

Qrendi โ€“ its people and their heritage by George Cassar (Kunsill Lokali Qrendi)

Il-Prefazju Storiku taโ€™ L-Mylsen Feniฤ‹ju-Puniku jew Il-Grammatika tal-Malti taโ€™ Mikiel Anton Vassalli by Prof. Horatio Ceasar Roger Vella (Klabb Kotba Maltin)

L-Avukat Giuseppe Elia Pace 1742-1820: ฤฆabib taโ€™ M.A. Vassalli fโ€™Ruma by Karmenu Bonavia (Klabb Kotba Maltin)

The Salter Album – Encounters in Maltaโ€™s Prisoner of War Camps, 1914-1920 by Charles Farrugia (National Archives of Malta)

 

Translation

Nimirฤงu maลผ-ลปmien by Marlene Saliba (Faraxa Publishing)

Neลผlin bฤงax-Xita by Toni Aquilina (Fondation de Malte)

Is-Sur Ibrahim u l-Fjuri fil-Koran by Toni Aquilina (Faraxa Publishing)

Salammbศ by Paul Zahra (Self Published)

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