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Ebejer was the leading
Maltese dramatist of the second half of the 20th century, having written over fifty plays, the majority in Maltese, for the stage, television and radio, several of them recipients of literary and dramatic awards. In the 1950s he wrote mostly for the radio, the sixties and the
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between 1942 and 1943 before abandoning the course to work as an
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seventies saw the more mature Ebejer producing most of his stageplays for Malta's
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Ebejer received many awards and titles in Malta and abroad for his literary works. He received the
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man has to look for internal peace within the bounds of his own experience and maturity; and in
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was published in 2002, nine years after the author's death. Other novels by Ebejer include
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In 1961 Ebejer became a Fellow of the
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Ebejer wrote seven full-length novels in
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Francis Ebejer was the father of the
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