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he obtained a BA in Fine Arts and French in 1990. In the 1960s, Calleja was a committee member of the
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Calleja was born in Hamrun, Malta. He studied at the Lyceum Grammar School and St Michael's Teachers’ Training College (1964–66). He attended the University of London, Birkbeck College in 1974-75, and in 1990, studied at North Florida University and Jacksonville University, Florida, from where
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