Letters | Sunday, 11 January 2009

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In defence of my father

I refer to Mr Sergio Grech’s letter regarding the National Book Council (4 January), especially to the part wherein he refers to my father’s presence in the Council. Most of the time, notification of meetings were received by emails sent to me on the morning of the meeting itself. Expecting an 80-year-old to turn up for meetings under these circumstances is inhumane. Moreover, my father had an eye condition that impaired him from driving throughout most of the last year. The Council was always duly notified of my father’s inability to attend.
My father’s resignation was the final straw in a string of errors in this year’s National Book Awards including a prize erroneously given to us as designers of a book. The least the Council could have done in the situation is to ask us for our reservations.
Attacking a person who has given everything for publishing in Malta is an act of vileness and I expect more honourable behaviour from people who work under the guise of education and culture.

Joseph Mizzi
Klabb Kotba Maltin

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