# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-friggieri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:38:57.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-friggieri"
name: "Oliver Friggieri"
slug: "oliver-friggieri"
description: "Oliver Friggieri was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others. A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri, attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics. From philosophy, he was mostly interested in epistemology and existentialism."
tagline: "20th century Maltese philosopher and writer (1947–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Oliver_Friggieri.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-03-27"
deathDate: "2020-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             14.61538461538462
  historical:           12.27523466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Олівер Фріггієрі"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump