The Most Famous
Writers from Malta
This page contains a list of the greatest Maltese Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 7 of which were born in Malta. This makes Malta the birth place of the 81st most number of Writers behind Montenegro and North Korea.
Top 7 Maltese Writers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Maltese Writers of all time. This list of famous Maltese Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Frans Sammut
1945 - 2011
HPI 67.2333 langsMaltese author (1945–2011)
- #2
Anton Buttigieg
1912 - 1983
HPI 56.4425 langsMaltese politician and poet
- #3
Dun Karm Psaila
1871 - 1961
HPI 56.3121 langsMaltese poet (1871-1961)
- #4
Joe Sacco
b. 1960
HPI 53.4127 langsMaltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)
- #5
Oliver Friggieri
1947 - 2020
HPI 51.9515 langs20th century Maltese philosopher and writer (1947–2020)
- #6
Peter Hitchens
b. 1951
HPI 48.6618 langsEnglish journalist and author (born 1951)
- #7
Mabel Strickland
1899 - 1988
HPI 46.2820 langsAnglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician (1899-1988)
Overlapping Lives
Which Writers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Writers since 1700.
