from the Department of Maltese within the Faculty of Arts was one of the three jury poets during the 2020 Doreen Micallef Poetry Contest.
Together with Nadia Mifsud and John Aquilina, Dr Mifsud helped choose the winner out of 47 submissions entered for this year’s contest.
Klara Vassallo’s poem, ‘Dokumentazzjoni tal-Minuti Mnikkra Fik’ has been chosen as the winner of the contest. She is the second and the youngest person to win the Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest since it started. The contest bears the name of the author of a confessional collection of poems of spiritual and romantic yearning, active since the times of the Movement Qawmien Letterarju.
The full list of winners can be found .
The next edition of the Doreen Micallef National Poetry Contest opens in June 2021.
The Malta Book Festival 2020 – Virtual Edition has just come to an end, the very first book festival on the Maltese islands, with the participation of a number of UM academics who moderated conversations throughout.
