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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 6 MARCH 2022 5 BOOKS THE National Book Council has announced its events pro- gramme for the 2022 Campus Book Festival taking place be- tween 23 and 25 March at the University of Malta Quadran- gle. The programme for Malta's second-biggest book festival is curated explicitly for tertiary education students with a range of activities also of interest to the general public. Events include book pres- entations, book club sessions, panel discussions on literature and publishing, with interviews with local and international au- thors. Celebrating EU Prize for Liter- ature winners from Malta and Ireland The festival's international guest is the Irish EU Prize for Literature (EUPL) winner in 2019, Jan Carson. Carson is the author of The Fire Starters (Doubleday) and several oth- er major prize-winning titles. She will be speaking about her literary works with the Mal- tese writer Leanne Ellul on 23 March at 2pm. On the same day, the novelist will also be participating in a book club session with students from the UM English Depart- ment led by Prof. James Corby to discuss her inventive short story collection, The Last Re- sort (Doubleday). On 24 March at 12pm, Carson will be joining fellow Maltese EUPL winner Lara Calleja to exchange their thoughts about the opportuni- ties afforded by the Prize as well as their books in a discussion moderated by Robert Pisani. This session will be of par- ticular interest to all those who want to know more about the EUPL thanks to the partici- pation of Joseph Lia, Head of the Creative Europe Office in Malta. Lara Calleja will also discuss her 2021 National Book Award-winning book Kissirtu Kullimkien (Merlin Publish- ers) in a book club session with students from the UM Depart- ment of Maltese, which Justine Sommerville moderates. Panel discussions: Peter Serracino Inglott, Artificial Intelligence and the essay François Zammit will mod- erate the festival's opening, revisiting the intellectual and cultural contribution of Prof. Peter Serracino Inglott on the year marking a decade since his passing. The speakers addressing this prominent figure's philosoph- ical, aesthetic, political, edu- cational, and religious work include Ranier Fsadni, Prof. Kenneth Wain, and Dr Jean- Paul De Lucca. Another panel on 24 March will bring together profession- als from the publishing sector and researchers to discuss the technological needs of the pub- lishing industry and how ongo- ing efforts in the development of Maltese computational tools could be of assistance to the in- dustry. Senior lecturer specialising in computational linguistics and Maltese language resources, Dr Claudia Borg will be leading this exchange with publisher Chris Gruppetta, translator Donatienne Spiteri, and Proof- reading Malta editor and busi- ness owner Elizabeth Cortis. The genre of the essay and its local context will be examined by PhD student Jessica Micallef and Dr Immanuel Mifsud from the UM Maltese Department, who will be joined by the ed- itor of The Essay at the Lim- its: Poetics, Politics and Form (Bloomsbury) and the upcom- ing Edinburgh Companion to the Essay (2022) Dr Mario Aq- uilina to evaluate Malta's pub- lic intellectuals' written contri- bution in this genre. 2022 Campus Book Festi- val will come to a close on 25 March when it hosts an Open Mic evening organised in col- laboration with Inizjamed and the participation of special guest Lara Calleja. The Open Mic concept offers a platform to anyone who would like to share their art through the spo- ken word. The National Book Council announces events programme for the 2022 Campus Book Festival, curated explicitly for tertiary education students National Book Council announces programme for the 2022 Campus Book Festival KAMPUS KOTBA Il-Festival tal-Ktieb fuq il-Kampus 2022 fl-Università ta' Malta 9am—tard 23-24-25 MARZU PROGRAMM Irish EU Prize for Literature winner in 2019, Jan Carson.