Conference on Commonwealth and post-colonial literature

A conference organised by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) will be hosted by the University of Malta as from tomorrow. The theme of this triennial conference is "Sharing Places: Searching for common ground in a world of continuing exclusion".

Over 230 delegates from all over the world will be meeting at the Crowne Plaza in Sliema to discuss Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Writing and to meet the nine acclaimed writers who have accepted the invitation to speak and to read from their work at the conference.

This conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies promises to be a truly memorable literary event.

Funded by the Commonwealth Foundation, the British Council, the Ministry of Education, the University of Malta, and Air Malta, the conference is being convened by Dr Stella Borg Barthet, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts.

Generous sponsorships have made it possible for EACLALS to bring together writers from far-off countries in the Commonwealth, along with others whose experience of colonisation is not British.

EACLALS is co-ordinating with the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and during the first days of the conference, the pan-Commonwealth panel under the chairmanship of Professor Daniel Massa will be meeting for the last phase of the adjudication process in another location.

The prize winners will by announced by the chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation, Professor Guido de Marco, during the conference dinner. Further details could be accessed at: www.um.edu.mt/pressreleases/2005/eaclals_pr.html