Emmanuel Giovanni Salvatore Pietro Dimech, also known as Manwel Dimech was a Maltese socialist, philosopher, journalist, writer, poet and social revolutionary.
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The place where Manuel Dimech was born on 25 December 1860 in St. John's Street, Valletta, Malta
First issue of Dimech's weekly Il-Bandiera tal-Maltin (The Flag of the Maltese) - 8 January 1898
A plaque at Balzan, Malta, recalling a meeting Dimech had with the bishop during his excommunication
Italian S.S. Stura on which Dimech was exiled
Sepolture of Manwel Dimech at Sidi Bishr
Monument to Manwel Dimech at Castille Square, VallettaWriters born in the 1860s 6
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Emmanuel Giovanni Salvatore Pietro Dimech, also known as Manwel Dimech was a Maltese socialist, philosopher, journalist, writer, poet and social revolutionary. Born in Valletta and brought up in extreme poverty and illiteracy, Dimech spent significant portions of his early life in the Maltese prison system, mostly on charges of petty theft. At the age of seventeen, Dimech was arrested for the crime of involuntary murder, and sentenced to seventeen years in jail. After being thrown in jail, Dimech started to educate himself and became a man of letters.
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