Karl schembri biography

Karl Schembri (born in 1978 in Malta) is a.
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Karl Schembri (born in 1978) is a Maltese writer and journalist.

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Karl Schembri(1978) is a Maltese poet, short story writer and editor of the independent weekly newspaper Malta Today. He is a sociology graduate from the University of Malta and has written a collection of short stories, Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx(Malta: Minima, 2002) and a novel, Il-Manifest tal-Killer (Malta: Choppy, 2006).

"On an official level," he writes about his novel, "Malta is somehow bound to appear more Catholic than the Pope. Out on the streets, there's a silent yet subversive Malta rebelling in its own way. That is essentially Mario Brincat. The main character of my story." In October 2008 Lemonhead Productions will present a stage adaptation of Il-Manifest tal-Killer.

He published his first poems with three other poets in the anthology Frekwenzi ta' Spirti fis-Sakra (Malta: 1997). Il-manifest tal-killer was censored by the University of Malta's radio station, Campus FM, after the management learnt that it was going to be read in the literary programme series Wara Arrigo in January 2007. He is also

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His first published work appeared in 1997, when he contributed the poem “Roadblock” to the self-published anthology Frekwenzi ta’ Spirti fis-Sakra (Frequencies of Drunken Spirits). Next came the short story collection Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx (Under the Sun, Minima) in 2002, which placed Schembri in the roster of alternative literary voices gathered under the umbrella of the short-lived but deeply influential micro-publisher Minima. But it was the release of his debut novel Il-Manifest tal-Killer (Choppy Books, 2006) which secured his position as a notable and urgent literary voice, even leading veteran author Mario Azzopardi to describe it as the first truly “anarchist” work of Maltese literature. Telling the story of a group of young misfits banding together to push back against the dominant political narrative through subversive action, the novel fictionalises into satire the real-life strands of political corruption, moral hypocrisy and institutional complacency which Schembri often found himself tackling during his years as a journalist for national

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Karl Schembri (born in 1978) is a Maltese writer and journalist. A sociology graduate from the University of Malta, he has written two novels, Taħt il-Kappa tax-Xemx in 2002 and Il-manifest tal-killer in 2006. He is also the co-author of the anthology of poems Frekwenzi ta’ Spriti fis-Sakra (1997) and co-editor with fellow author Adrian Grima of Id-Demm Nieżel bħax-Xita (2009) – an anthology of poems in solidarity with Palestinians published during the 22-day war on Gaza. He has reported extensively from Libya, Kosovo, Albania, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and won the 2000 Malta press award for his reporting. He has also contributed to The Sunday Telegraph, Russian Newsweek and Guardian Weekly and is the founding chairman of The Journalists’ Committee. He is currently Media & Communications Officer at Oxfam GB in Gaza, Palestine.

Il-manifest tal-killer was censored by the University of Malta’s radio station, Campus FM, after the management learnt that it was going to be read in the literary programme series Wara Arrigo in January 2007. An adapta