Oliver Friggieri (27 March 1947 – 21 November 2020) was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher....
Oliver Friggieri, intellectual who articulated nation’s consciousness, passes away
Oliver Friggieri, the man whose work laid bare the soul of a troubled nation in its worst days of political divide, has died.
He was 73.
An intellectual who was a poet, novelist, literary critic, and minor philosopher, his work had an unmistakable timbre of existentialism.
He articulated Malta’s national consciousness in his works, notably with his 1986 work Fil-Parlament ma Jikbrux Fjuri and the unforgettable paean to murder victims Karin Grech and Raymond Caruana, victims of Malta’s political war in the 1980s.
Friggieri was born on the 27th of March 1947 in Floriana.
Friggieri was born in Floriana, Malta, in 1947. He studied at the Bishop’s Seminary and then at the University of Malta in 1968 where he acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Maltese, Italian and Philosophy (1968), and then a Masters (1975).
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