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Lara Calleja

Lara Calleja is a Maltese novelist and playwright.

Early and personal life
She was raised in the village of Marsaskala. She attended a Catholic secondary school and studied Near Eastern studies at university, She has congenital myasthenia gravis, which "causes weaknesses in her facial features and arms". ==Writing career==
Writing career
Calleja has cited Immanuel Mifsud as her "wake-up call" to Maltese literature, encountering his work when she was 17. Mifsud later met Calleja, and encouraged her to continue writing. The work is a coming-of-age novel following the titular Lucy. Miriam Calleja, for the Times of Malta, noted of the work, "Calleja has set out to write what some would consider unwritable: the dark, not-so-polite thoughts, the anonymous one-night-stands, and the downright awkwardness that might be distinctively Maltese". Many of Calleja's stories contain political elements, Calleja is also the founder and CEO of the speech-writing service Mil-Qalb. == Publications ==
Publications
Lucy min? (Merlin Publishers, 2016) • Kissirtu Kullimkien (Merlin Publishers, 2020) == Awards ==
Awards
• 2017 National Book Award shortlist, for Lucy min? • 2021 EU Prize for Literature, for Kissirtu Kullimkien • 2021 National Book Prize for new writers, for Kissirtu Kullimkien ==References==
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