Prof. Joe Friggieri (born 1946) is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Malta
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, poet, playwright and theatre director.
Biography
Friggieri was the first professor of philosophy on the University of Malta faculty not to be a Catholic priest and succeeded
Peter Serracino Inglott in 1996 upon the latter's retirement. He holds doctorates from the University of Milan (Cattolica) and
The University of Oxford
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. Friggieri has been guest research scholar and lecturer at the Universities of Venice, Amsterdam, St Andrews, Augsburg and Genova. He is currently a professor at the University of Malta and previously was a member of the Senate of the same University.
Friggieri's publications include three volumes of poetry, three collections of short stories, a number of plays, as well as two volumes entitled ''In-Nisġa tal-Ħsieb'', the first history of philosophy publications in
Maltese.
''In-Nisġa tal-Ħsieb'' is also compulsory reading for philosophy students in
Malta
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He has won several literary awards, including the
National Literary Prize five times (1993, 1999, 2003, 2008, 2013).
One of his most popular works is ''L-Istejjer tar-Ronnie'', published in 1994 by Klabb Kotba Maltin, which caricatures father of four ir-Ronnie, a Maltese middle-aged mechanic, in a series of short stories. The original publication was so popular that it was eventually turned into a teleserial.
In 2004 Friggieri unsuccessfully contested Malta's first elections for the European Parliament on behalf of the governing Nationalist Party, garnering a total of 5457 votes on first count.
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Selected bibliography
*''L-Istejjer tar-Ronnie'', Malta (1992);
*''In-Nisga tal-Hsieb No. 1'', Malta (2000);
*''In-Nisga tal-Hsieb No. 2'', Malta (2007);
*''Aktar Stejjer tar-Ronnie'', Malta (2010);
Notes
References
University of Malta
Kulturhaupstadt Potsdam 2010
Department of Information, Malta
Euroaktiv, European Union
External links
*
Profile
on OAR@UM
See also
* Philosophy in Malta
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1946 births
20th-century Maltese philosophers
Living people
Maltese male poets
21st-century Maltese philosophers
20th-century Maltese poets
Academic staff of the University of Malta
21st-century Maltese poets
Maltese dramatists and playwrights