Mary Meilak

Mary Meilak

Mary Meilak (9 August 1905 – 1 January 1975) was a Maltese poet.

Life

Born in Victoria, Gozo in 1905, she was the daughter of Ġorġ and Mananni. She received her education at Central School in Gozo. For seventeen years she worked in government offices but in 1942, she became a teacher, retiring twenty years later. Meilak died on the 1 January 1975 at the age of 69. On the centenary of her birth, a memorial was erected in her honor in Victoria.

Works

Meilak wrote her first poem, Faxx Nemel, when she was 25 years old, in 1930. In 1945, she published her first collection of poems. She also published collections of essays, three novels, two operas and some operetti. She was a contemporary of Gan Anton Vassallo, Dwardu Cachia, Dun Karm, Anastasio Cuschieri, Ninu Cremona, Guze Delia, Gorg Zammit, Gorg Pisani, and Anton Buttigieg.[1]

List of works

  • Pleġġ il-Hena (1945)
  • Nirraġunaw u Nitbissmu 1 (1946)
  • Nirraġunaw u Nitbissmu 2 (1947)
  • Dawra Misterjuża (1947)
  • Villa Meylak: Ġonna ta' Kulħadd (1947)
  • Album: Poeżiji (1947)
  • Nokkla Sewda (1958)
  • Songs You Will Like (1971)
  • L-Istrumenti tal-Passjoni (2005)

References

  1. ↑ Murphy, Patrick D.; Gifford, Terry; Yamazato, Katsunori (January 1998). Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Taylor & Francis. pp. 212–. ISBN 978-1-57958-010-0.
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