Launched on Saturday,
30 November 2019 @ LIMESTONE HERITAGE
Oliver Friggieri, Sketches and Poems, with responses by Victor Grech, Lea Hogg, Arthur Lyon Dahl and Richard England
Exhibition and book, fundraiser for NGOs Save and Support Trust and Beating Hearts Malta
Concept
“This book is an interdisciplinary foray in many ways. I am the editor of this book and I am a doctor but I also paint and am a keen photographer. The idea for this book came about after Lea Hogg mentioned that Professor Oliver Friggieri sketches. Oliver was delighted to support my non-profit work and donated 48 original sketches for this project. We categorized them into nine themes, and decided to match them with his poems, and some art of my own consisting of an oil on canvas and some digital artwork together with a piece of artwork or sketch by Richard England and Arthur Lyons Dahl’s recommendations to improve our environment in Malta. – Victor Grech”
Oliver was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others.
Oliver Friggieri (1947-2020)
Oliver was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others.
A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri (No Flowers Grow in Parliament, 1986), attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics.
From philosophy, he was mostly interested in epistemology and existentialism.
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