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THE THEATRE  OF  ORESTE CALLEJA
  Palk Malti Kontemporanju

Born in Ħamrun, (Malta) Calleja studied at the Lyceum and St. Michael's Training College for Teachers (1964-66). He left Malta in 1974 to study at the University of London, Birkbeck College, and then in 1990 he attended North Florida University, and Jacksonville University, Florida, from where he obtained a BA in Art and French. 

Calleja was a committee member of the Moviment Qawmien Letterarju in the sixties. At the same time he started writing plays for the stage, radio, and television. These include Anestesija (1969), Għargħar (1979), Ċens Perpetwu (1969), Satira (1970), Jum Fost l-Oħrajn (1970), En Passant (1970), Iġsmaiħirsa (1970) and Għażiż Angelo (1971). Before he emigrated in 1974, he published Erba' Drammi (1972) which is still used in secondary schools as a text in Maltese literature. Since his return to Malta in  1991, he has written and published three other plays, Għasfur taċ-Ċomb (1993), Il-Belliegħa fil-Bir (1994) and U l-Anġlu Ħabbar... (1995) "Calleja's success as a dramatist is mainly due to his integration of the realistic style with symbolic characteristics that make his plays universal."

From Maltese Biographies of the Twentieth Century,
PIN Publications, Malta, 1997.

Other published works include:

The ScreenPlays Series -2015 - 2018

In November 2015 and later in 2016,  Oreste Calleja published the first three volumes of the Screenplays Series - SKART, 3 SILTIET, GĦASFUR TAĊ-ĊOMB,the complete screenplay adapation of his 3 act play and ADDIJO ĊESRI,

OTHER HARDBACKS published in 2016:
GĦAŻIŻ ANGELO, SKUŻI TA,  JUM FOST L-OĦRAJN and EN PASSANT as well
as the reprint in a first hardback edition oF L-ANĠLU ĦABBAR  and  IL-BELLIEGĦA FIL-BIR.

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