lonkirkop, Author at Lon Kirkop

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Marlon Chircop (born 5 August 1991) better known by his artist name Lon Kirkop is a Maltese novelist, playwright, and visual artist. He was born on the 5th of August 1991, in Malta. His love affair with art, literature, and theatre dates to his childhood, today he managed to find a way to incorporate all his passions into his continuously developing multidisciplinary work. In 2018, he had his first solo visual art show at La Bottega Art Bistro in Valletta, curated by Lily Agius Gallery where he exhibited a selection of layered mesh paintings, a technique he invented himself through artistic experimentation, with a hard to define aesthetics. Kirkop debut as a playwright during the Cospicua Short Play Festival 2019 with three different plays: FIl-Ħajja li Jmiss (Maltese for "Another Life"), Limbu (Maltese for "Limbo"), and Elektra, where he won the best scriptwriting award for the play Elektra. Since then, he wrote his first young adult novel Mitt Elf Isem Ieħor: HappyVeganGirlJules (Maltese for "Hundred Thousand Names: HappyVeganGirlJules") and won the Literary Contest Of Novels For Youth in 2020, and in October 2021, this novel was published by Merlin Publishers.

Fil-Ħajja Li Jmiss hi storja realistika b’tema straordinarja. Id-dramm jirrakkonta l-istorja tar-realzzjoni mfarrka taż-żewġ karattri mill-perspettiva tagħhom it-tnejn. Għall-ewwel il-koppja tidher bħala koppja tipika, iżda s-sigrieti tagħhom kontinwament jitfaċċaw bejniethom biex ikissru dak il-ftit li fadal. Iż-żewġ naħat jafu li dawn l-istess sigrieti huma l-konsegwanza tal-problemi fir-relazzjoni, iżja jafu wkoll li huma l-unika ħaġa li […]

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