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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2015 This Week 43 National Book Prize 2015 shortlist announced THE National Book Council can announce the shortlist for this year's edition of the National Book Prize. The shortlist, composed by the Independent Adjudication Board of the National Book Prize, serves as a sample of the best books published locally in the previous year. These books are available for pur- chase from all general bookstores or at the upcoming Malta Book Festi- val, 4-8 November, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta. The winning publications will be announced during a ceremony at Castille in December. The categories - and correspond- ing shortlisted works - are as fol- lows: Literary Work: The Novel L-Iskjav ta' Isabel by Audrey Frig- gieri (Horizons) Jutta Heim by Immanuel Mifsud (Klabb Kotba Maltin) Fi Nżul ix-Xemx Sabiħ by Pupull Debattista Borg (Dom Communi- cations Ltd.) Bajjuni Nġurmati by John Charles Betts (Klabb Kotba Maltin) Two by Teodor Reljić (Merlin Publishers) Iż-Żeffiena tal-Kerubini by Carlo O. D'Emanuele (Horizons) Literary Work: The Short Story Feruti by Carmel Scicluna (Hori- zons) Kulħadd ħalla isem warajh by Clare Azzopardi (Merlin Publish- ers) INSANIAM by Edgar Formosa (Horizons) Satin by Rita Saliba (Horizons) Literary Work: Poetry Epistoli mid-deżert - Poeżiji u Poesaġġi by Mario Azzopardi (Ho- rizons) Fi Triqti Lejha by Walid Nabhan (Klabb Kotba Maltin) taħt il-kpiepel t'għajnejja by Maria Grech Ganado (Klabb Kotba Mal- tin) Klessidra: Versi taż-Żmien Maħrub by Lilian Sciberras (Hori- zons) Mirja – Ħamsin Sena ta' Poeżija 1963-2013 by Philip Sciberras (Sci- berras Associates Publishing) Literary Work: Drama Jum il-Ħaqq by Doris Vella Camilleri (Self Published) General Research Bormla: A Struggling Community by Josann Cutajar (Faraxa Publish- ing) Translation Studies from Malta ed. by Charles Briffa (Malta Univer- sity Publishing) Musical Instruments of the Mal- tese Islands: History, Folkways and Traditions by Anna Borg Cardona (Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti) Shostakovich, Britten, Stravinsky and the Painters in Between: 1936 by Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci (Ho- rizons) Does it matter who speaks? Post- modern Papers on Politics, Ethics and Education by Kenneth Wain (Malta University Press) The Maltese Nineteenth-Century Notary and his Archives by Michael Refalo (Book Distributors Limited) Historiographic Research The Social and Religious His- tory of a Maltese Parish: St. Mary's Qrendi in the Eighteenth Century by Frans Ciappara (Malta Univer- sity Press) Journal of Maltese Studies 28: Essays on the Cantilena ed. by Dr. Bernard Micallef (Midsea Books Limited) M.A. Vassalli 1764-1829 - An Enlightened Maltese Reformer by Frans Ciappara (Midsea Books Limited) France in the Maltese Collective Memory - Perceptions, Perspec- tives, Identities after Bonaparte in British Malta by Charles Xuereb (Malta University Press) Mattia Preti - Saints and Heroes for the Knights of Malta by Cynthia de Giorgio (Midsea Books Limited) Qrendi – its people and their heritage by George Cassar (Kunsill Lokali Qrendi) Il-Prefazju Storiku ta' L-Mylsen Feniċju-Puniku jew Il-Grammatika tal-Malti ta' Mikiel Anton Vassalli by Prof. Horatio Ceasar Roger Vella (Klabb Kotba Maltin) L-Avukat Giuseppe Elia Pace 1742-1820: Ħabib ta' M.A. Vassalli f'Ruma by Karmenu Bonavia (Klabb Kotba Maltin) The Salter Album - Encounters in Malta's Prisoner of War Camps, 1914-1920 by Charles Farrugia (Na- tional Archives of Malta) Translation Nimirħu maż-Żmien by Marlene Saliba (Faraxa Publishing) Neżlin bħax-Xita by Toni Aqui- lina (Fondation de Malte) Is-Sur Ibrahim u l-Fjuri fil-Koran by Toni Aquilina (Faraxa Publish- ing) Salammbo by Paul Zahra (Self Published) The winning publications will be announced during a ceremony at Castille in December Immanuel Mifsud is among the shortlisted writers, for his novella Jutta Heim • Photo by Ray Attard