Francis Ebejer was born in 1925 and was a novelist and playwright writing in both English and Maltese. He has written plays for the stage, television and radio. He has travelled widely. At age seventeen-and-a-half he worked for a year (1943-44) in North Africa with the British Eighth Army as an English-Italian interpreter. Requiem for a Malta Fascist (or The Interrogation) is his fifth English published novel.
Sometimes the philosophical comments were confusing, but the dystopian society was satirised in a very great and convincing manner mainly through what the characters said. The ending was so good, it made me want to read more!