Home / News / List of participants for NATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2015 and TERRAMAXKA PRIZE 2015 back to news List of participants for NATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2015 and TERRAMAXKA PRIZE 2015 National Book Prize • News 16th June, 2015 The National Book Council is proud to announce that the official list of books participating in the National Book Prize 2015 as well as the Terramaxka Prize 2015 is out. Local publishing houses and their authors have responded to the NBC’s call for applications for books published throughout 2014 and the response has been astounding. Below please find listed all 153 participating publications in their respective categories as approved by the appointed adjudication board. Please note that the Terramaxka Prize 2015 is in its first year and gathers together the Prize categories for original works and translations of children and adolescents’ literature. The adjudication process is already underway and a shortlist will be issued officially later on this year. National Book Prize 2015 NOVELS TITLE AUTHOREDITOR PUBLISHER L-Iskjav ta’ Isabel Audrey Friggieri Horizons L-istorja tiegħi Darren Agius Horizons Id-Djarju ta’ Darba f’Sena Lorraine Galea Horizons Jutta Heim Immanuel Mifsud Klabb Kotba Maltin Taħt il-Ħarruba Alfred Massa DOM Comm. LTD Meta d-Dmugħ ma Jinxifx Anthony Farrugia DOM Comm. LTD Ħajja Ġdida għal Maria Rita Grech DOM Comm. LTD Glorjana Dott. Karmenu Mallia DOM Comm. LTD Mill-Fond tal-Art Antoine Barbara DOM Comm. LTD Fi Nżul ix-Xemx Sabiħ Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Sal-Mewt Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Għajn Klieb Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Bajjuni Ngurmati John C. Betts Klabb Kotba Maltin Il-Polz li Baqa’ Jħabbat Bertram Portelli Pubblikazzjoni Preca Ix-Xitan iz-Zopp Tony C. Cutajar Horizons X’Seta Ġralu lil Kevin Cacciattolo? Mark Vella Merlin Publishers TWO Teodor Reljic Merlin Publishers Dijaspori Salv Sammut Horizons L-Anġlu tal-Lament Carlo O. D’Emanuele Horizons Iż-Żeffiena tal-Kerubini Carlo O. D’Emanuele Horizons Preżenza Michael Cini Horizons Bla Ħtija Gino Lombardi Self-Published L-Eroj li ma Kienx – Il-Ġrajja ta’ Suldat Malti fil-Gwerra l-Kbira Joseph Vella Self-Published Il-Furban Malti, El Sakr, u l-Assedju tal-1551 Sebastian Debono Horizons L-Għoġol tad-Deheb Tony C. Cutajar Horizons Għall-Magħmul m’Hemmx Kunsill Liliana Risiott Book Distributors Limited SHORT STORIES TITLE AUTHOREDITOR PUBLISHER Kullana Mżewqa Carmel Bianchi DOM Comm. LTD Feruti Carmel Scicluna Horizons L-Aħħar Każi ta’ G. J. Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Mill-Praspar ta’ Fra Pietru Fr. Reno Muscat DOM Comm. LTD Kulħadd ħalla isem warajh Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers INSANIAM Edgar Formosa Horizons Satin Rita Saliba Horizons Il-Kummidjanti tal-Parlament Carmel Scicluna Horizons POETRY TITLE AUTHOREDITOR PUBLISHER Epistoli Mid-Deżert: Poeżiji u Poesaġġi Mario Azzopardi Horizons Fi Triqti Lejha Walid Nabhan Klabb Kotba Maltin Taħt il-Kpiepel t’Għajnejja Maria Grech Ganado Klabb Kotba Maltin Temenos – Il-Ħaġar Għadu Ħabib tal-Imnajdra Charles Briffa Horizons In Her Element Therese Pace Faraxa Publishing Il-Purgatorju 360° Joseph W. Psaila Self-Published Trifoċju ta’ Lwien Patrick Sammut, Mario Attard, Frank Zammit Self-Published Riflessi Charles Casha Self-Published Malta Poema Viżiva Victor Fenech Horizons Klessidra: Versi taż-Żmien Maħrub Lilian Sciberras Horizons Il-Fgura 50 Sena Parroċċa Paul Mifsud Self-Published A Land in the Storytelling Sea: A North American in Malta Sheryl Loeffler Faraxa Publishing POE Dott. Karmenu Mallia DOM Comm. LTD Mirja Philip Sciberras Sciberras Associates Publishing DRAMA TITLE AUTHOREDITOR PUBLISHER Jum il-Ħaqq Doris Vella Camilleri Self-Published Il-Mara ta’ Dlielha Twil Gorg Peresso Horizons TRANSLATION TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Nimirħu maż-Żmien Marlene Saliba Faraxa Publishing Ittra lil Tarbija li Qatt ma Twieldet Christine Bajada Faraxa Publishing Ostaġġ tat-Tielet Reich Tony C. Cutajar Horizons Neżlin bħax-Xita Toni Aquilina Fondation de Malte Is-Sur Ibrahim u l-Fjuri fil-Koran Toni Aquilina Faraxa Publishing Boonds in the Mirror of Time Antoinette Pace Faraxa Publishing Nimbuttaw ‘l quddiem bħal ħmar Eman Bonnici Horizons Salammbȏ Paul Zahra Self-Published GENERAL RESEARCH TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Plurali Maltin George Ebejer DOM Comm. LTD L-Istorja tat-Tazza tad-Dinja Ramon Zammit Horizons Dizzjunarju tal-Malti għall-Iskejjel Carmel Tabone Klabb Kotba Maltin Minn Fomm il-Kittieb Vol. 1 Patrick Sammut Horizons Bormla: A Struggling Community Josann Cutajar Faraxa Publishing Winning Without Fighting Claudette Portelli Malta University Publishing In-Nisġa tal-Ħsieb – Vol. 3: mill-Idealiżmu sal-Postmoderniżmu Joe Friggieri Malta University Publishing Il-Vatikan – Misteri – Storja – Kurżitajiet Fr. Reno Muscat DOM Comm. LTD Translation Studies from Malta Charles Briffa Malta University Publishing The Maltese Bestiary Stephan D. Mifsud Merlin Publishers Musical Instruments of the Maltese Islands Anna Borg Cardona Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti Evoluzzjoni jew Ħolqien Soċjali George Ebejer DOM Comm. LTD JUAN: Il-Ħalliel tal-Qlub Fr. Eric Cachia SAB Horizons … maqful fil-ħabs ta’ ġbini … Paul P. Borg Horizons Profili Kav. Joe M. Attard Klabb Kotba Maltin Ġabra ta’ Kliem: Malti Mhux Safi – Malti Safi Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Shostakovich, Britten, Stravinsky and the Painters in Between: 1936 Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci Horizons A Grammar of the Real Maltese Language Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Does it matter who speaks? Kenneth Wain Malta University Press Il-Prostituzzjoni f’Malta Edward Attard Book Distributors Limited The Maltese 19th Century Notary and his Archives Michael Refalo Book Distributors Limited HISTORIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER The Social and Religious History of a Maltese Parish: St. Mary’s Qrendi in the 18th cent. Frans Ciappara Malta University Press Essays on the Cantilena Dr. Bernard Micallef Midsea Books LTD M.A. Vassalli 1764-1829, An Enlightened Maltese Reformer Prof. Frans Ciappara Midsea Books LTD The Amazing Story of Manuel Dimech Mark Montebello DOM Comm. LTD Ġorġ Borg Olivier: 50 Sena Malta Indipendenti Josef Grech DOM Comm. LTD Duminku Mintoff u Mons. Mikiel Gonzi Josef Grech DOM Comm. LTD Isle Landers Darrin Zammit Lupi Self-Published Two Generations of Maltese Artistic Families VOL 1 Dr. Aloysius Lagana APS Bank LTD France in the Maltese Collective Memory, Perceptions, Perspectives, Identities after Bonaparte in British Malta Charles Xuereb Midsea Books LTD Ilkoll Aħwa fi Kristu: Ġużeppi Mercieca, Memorji Charles Buttiġieġ Klabb Kotba Maltin Mattia Preti: Saints and Heroes for the Knights of Malta Cynthia de Giorgio Midsea Books LTD Pawlu VI – Papa li qadef fil-Maltemp Fr. Reno Muscat DOM Comm. LTD Qrendi – its people and their heritage Dr. George Cassar Kunsill Lokali Qrendi L-Imqabba – Bejn Storja u Folklor Carmen Lia Self-Published Essays on the Archaeology and Ancient History of the Maltese Islands Prof. Mario Buhagiar Midsea Books LTD St. Geroge’s Basilica and its Ħaġar Museum Pawlu Mizzi Heritage Books Minn Fomm Vassalli David Agius Muscat & Olvin Vella Klabb Kotba Maltin Il-Prefazju Storiku ta’ l-Mylsen Feniċju-Puniku Prof. Horatio Ceasar Roger Vella Klabb Kotba Maltin Marie Louise Coleiro Preca – Il-Mara tas-Soċjaliżmu Josef Grech DOM Comm. LTD Dimech’s Lost Prison Poems Prof. Henry Frendo Midsea Books LTD An Amateur’s View of the Origin of the Indo-European Languages and Peoples Pupull Debattista Borg DOM Comm. LTD Dom Mintoff u l-Ħelsien Josef Grech DOM Comm. LTD Mit-Tieqa tal-Għorfa Dott. Karmenu Mallia DOM Comm. LTD L-Avukat Giuseppe Elia Pace 1742-1820: Ħabib ta’ M.A. Vassalli f’Ruma Karmenu Bonavia Klabb Kotba Maltin Richard Ellis: Malta, Portrait of an Era Ian Ellis Book Distributors Limited The Salter Album: Encounters in Malta’s Prisoner of War Camps, 1914-1920 Charles Farrugia National Archives of Malta Terramaxka Prize 2015 ORIGINAL WORKS: Children’s Books (0-7 yrs) TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Jisimni Mariah Doris Schembri Faraxa Publishing L-Ewwel Ktieb tal-Kuluri Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin L-Ewwel Ktieb tan-Numri Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin L-Ewwel Ktieb tal-Alfabett Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin Kliem minn kullimkien Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin ORIGINAL WORKS: Children’s Books (8-12 years) TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER What? Another Book of Stories? Roberta Bajada M.U.T. Publications Jake Cassar irid isalva ir-renji kollha waħdu Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Ir-Re tal-Ġungla u s-Skiet Misterjuż Therese Pace Faraxa Publishing Fis-Sena Sittin Emanuel Curmi Publikazzjonijiet Preca San Pawl li Beka Pawlu Mizzi Klabb Kotba Maltin Bieb il-Għarreqin Pawlu Mizzi Klabb Kotba Maltin Il-Ġebla tal-Ħalfa Pawlu Mizzi Klabb Kotba Maltin Il-Wegħda tal-Ktajjen Pawlu Mizzi Klabb Kotba Maltin Valuri biz-Zokkor Charles Magro M.U. T. Publications Save Samyo City Sherise Bugeja Merlin Publishers Stampakelma Trevor Zahra Merlin Publishers Il-Gżira ta’ Wanyama Claudia Cini M.U.T. Publications Dizzjunarju bil-Malti għat-Tfal Christopher J. Micallef Book Distributors Limited ORIGINAL WORKS: Adolescents’ Books (13-16 yrs) TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Only in Ħal Biżarr David Aloisio Klabb Kotba Maltin Strange Tales Charles Raymond Coyne Faraxa Publishing The Legend of Amanda Robins Corrine Annette Zahra Faraxa Publishing Il-Misteru tal-Ġgantija Ivan De Battista Book Distributors Limited Il-Baħri Charles Casha Klabb Kotba Maltin TRANSLATION: Books translated into Maltese (0-7 yrs) TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Aċċu! Trevor Zahra Merlin Publishers X’qed ifittex fid-dar tiegħu Gallett? Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin Busy Farm / Razzett Mimli Tħabrik Toni Aquilina Faraxa Publishing Nora, hemm x’ilbist? Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Nora ma tiflaħx Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Il-Fabbrika tal-Kliem Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Serafin il-Prinċep Denfil Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Rosetta Banana, tinten jew tfuħ? Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Kukku l-Kukkudrill Kantant Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Lupu Lupettu Kull Kulur Clare Azzopardi Merlin Publishers Ġimgħa ma’ Gallett Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin Ġurnata ma’ Gallett Terence Portelli Klabb Kotba Maltin Milly, Molly u ż-Żerriegħa tal-Qar’aħmar Frans A. Attard Uptrend Publishing Milly u Molly bil-Mutur Frans A. Attard Uptrend Publishing Milly, Molly u d-Dwejra ta’ Bob Frans A. Attard Uptrend Publishing Milly u Molly Jgħallmu lil Makk jaqra Frans A. Attard Uptrend Publishing TRANSLATION: Books translated into Maltese (8-12 yrs) TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Il-Misteru tal-Labirint Rita Saliba Merlin Publishers Il-Misteru tad-Dniefel tal-Ġebel Rita Saliba Merlin Publishers Par Widnejn Kbar Loranne Vella Merlin Publishers Kosmos Express: il-Wikkiel tal-Pjaneti Loranne Vella Merlin Publishers Merħba fir-Rifuġju ta’ Kobikisa! Loranne Vella Merlin Publishers L-Investigazzjonijiet ta’ Arkimeda Lapsi: Din iċ-Ċajta min Għamilha? Loranne Vella Merlin Publishers It-Tifel Dragun: l-Ewwel Fjamma Loranne Vella Merlin Publishers Se Jkolli Ħijja Żgħir? Le Grazzi! Loranne Vella Merlin Publishers TRANSLATION: Books translated into Maltese (13-16 yrs) TITLE AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Kważi Kważi lil Tamara Nżommuha Simon Bartolo Merlin Publishers . SHARE POST Related Articles Malta Book Fund Goes Fully Online with an Increased Budget for 2025 Malta Book Fund 17th March, 2025 Read More The National Book Council has rebranded! 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