{"id":10607,"date":"2025-02-19T06:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?post_type=funded_project&#038;p=10607"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:24:32","slug":"oliver-friggieris-book-the-misfit-at-the-2017-european-literature-night-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"funded_project","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/funded-project\/oliver-friggieris-book-the-misfit-at-the-2017-european-literature-night-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Friggieri&#8217;s book &#8216;The Misfit&#8217; at the 2017 European Literature Night in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was one of 14 reading events held all across different venues at the Bohemian National Hall on June 2nd&nbsp;in New York City.&nbsp;Selected readings from&nbsp;The Misfit&nbsp;were&nbsp;read&nbsp;by a New York City actor and in between each reading, Professor John Baldacchino (Director of the Arts Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison) presented a detailed commentary in the form of a critical historical analysis of Friggieri\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friggieri\u2019s work is considered pivotal in the development of the Maltese language.&nbsp;The Misfit,&nbsp;originally published as&nbsp;L-Istramb&nbsp;(1980), is one of Friggieri\u2019s finest works, capturing the complexity of Maltese society, teasing out the dynamic relationships of what it is to be Maltese, defined, as it were, by what it is not.&nbsp;This book\u2019s&nbsp;English translation by&nbsp;Charles Briffa,&nbsp;a fellow professor, and a prominent literary author, confirms Briffa\u2018s intimate knowledge of Friggieri\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hosted by&nbsp;the&nbsp;European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in NY,&nbsp;the Czech Center New York and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York together with the collaboration of fifteen partnering cultural institutions, Malta\u2019s participation was made possible by Arts Council Malta in NY and supported by the Malta Tourism Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Arts Council Malta in New York presented a Book Reading event featuring Oliver Friggieri\u2019s book The Misfit (translated by Charles Briffa; published by Faraxa Publishing) at the European Literature Night (ELN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10637,"template":"","funded_project_category":[39],"class_list":["post-10607","funded_project","type-funded_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","funded_project_category-international"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/funded_project\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/funded_project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/funded_project"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/funded_project\/10607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/funded_project\/10607\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"funded_project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/funded_project_category?post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}