id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5587 Maltese literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 2356 340 67 This article will give an overview of the history of Maltese-language literature. In early Maltese history, diglossia manifested itself in the co-existence of a developed form of Siculo-Arabic and the language of a series of rulers, most notably Latin, Greek, Sicilian, French, Spanish and Italian. The post-War years saw the emergence of Moviment Qawmien Letterarju (Literary Revival Movement) in 1967, an avant-garde literary movement the protagonists of which included Oliver Friggieri (later Professor of Maltese at the University of Malta), Frans Sammut (1945–2011), the "national author", Alfred Sant (who was Prime Minister from 1996 to 1998), Lino Spiteri (who was Finance Minister in two Governments),[4] and others.[5] Frans Sammut's reputation is built on his novels Il-Gaġġa (on which the film with the same name is based[7]), Samuraj,[8] Paceville[9] and Il-Ħolma Maltija[10] (translated in Esperanto as La Malta Revo). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5587.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5587.txt