https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/9562 2026-04-11T04:26:24Z 2026-04-11T04:26:24Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/10499 2017-05-29T13:11:07Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Kotba : program 15 Abstract: Daphne Cassar interviews Dr Carmen Depasquale about her choice of author Jean Racine. Jean Racine (baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie, although he did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young. Description: Kotba is a series of programs whereby presenter Daphne Cassar interviews University of Malta lecturers and discusses with them their favourite book and author.

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Title: Kotba : program 14 Abstract: Daphne Cassar interviews Dr Charles Briffa on the choice of two auhtors: Giles Foden and Oliver Friggieri. Giles Foden (born 1967) is an English author, best known for his novel The Last King of Scotland (1998). Oliver Friggieri (born 27 March 1947) is a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and minor philosopher. In philosophy he is mostly interested in epistemology and Existentialism. Description: Kotba is a series of programs whereby presenter Daphne Cassar interviews University of Malta lecturers and discusses with them their favourite book and author.

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Title: Kotba : program 13 Abstract: Daphne Cassar interviews Fr Joe Borg about his choice of author Graham Green. Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). Description: Kotba is a series of programs whereby presenter Daphne Cassar interviews University of Malta lecturers and discusses with them their favourite book and author.

2004-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/10496 2016-05-12T08:34:25Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Kotba : program 12 Abstract: Daphne Cassar interviews Dr Gloria Lauri Lucente about her choice of authors: John Fowles and Francesco Petrarca. John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited for initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism". Description: Kotba is a series of programs whereby presenter Daphne Cassar interviews University of Malta lecturers and discusses with them their favourite book and author.

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