Name Mary Meilak Role Poet | Died January 1, 1975 | |
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Ġejja x-Xita - Adattament mill-poeżija ta' Mary Meilak (Jenny Mercieca)
Mary Meilak (9 August 1905 – 1 January 1975) is one of the few Maltese women poets. Born in Victoria, Gozo in 1905, she was the daughter of Ġorġ and Mananni. She received her education at Central School in Gozo. For seventeen years she worked in government offices but in 1942, she became a teacher, retiring twenty years later. Meilak wrote her first poem, Faxx Nemel, when she was 25 years old, in 1930. In 1945, she published her first collection of poems. She also published collections of essays, three novels, two operas and some operetti. She was a contemporary of Gan Anton Vassallo, Dwardu Cachia, Dun Karm, Anastasio Cuschieri, Ninu Cremona, Guze Delia, Gorg Zammit, Gorg Pisani, and Anton Buttigieg. Meilak died in 1975. On the centenary of her birth, a memorial was erected in her honor in Victoria.