Francis Ebejer

Francis Ebejer (28 August 1925, Dingli — 10 June 1993, St Julian's) was a Maltese dramatist and novelist.

Upon completion of St Mary's Training College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (1948–50), he was appointed a primary school head teacher in Malta, a post he held till 1977.

His final novel, The Maltese Baron and I Lucian was published in 2002, nine years after the author's death.

Vaganzi tas-Sajf, a play in three Acts, is one of his best known dramas, and has been translated into French, Italian and German, and published respectively in France, Italy, and Malta.

In Menz, for instance, he discusses the usefulness of individual freedom within a social system that imposes rigidity; in Vaganzi tas-Sajf man has to look for internal peace within the bounds of his own experience and maturity; and in L-Imwarrbin (1973, The Cliffhangers) he sets the past in confrontation with the present to reveal the workings of the individual conscience and makes use of the play-within-a-play technique to retain the link with reality.