Education
Rużar Briffa studied at the Saint Elmo elementary state school and at the Valletta Lyceum. In 1924, he began his studies in medicine at the University of Malta and completed them in London in venereology and dermatology.
Rużar Briffa studied at the Saint Elmo elementary state school and at the Valletta Lyceum. In 1924, he began his studies in medicine at the University of Malta and completed them in London in venereology and dermatology.
“I never thought of publishing these poems in a book Some were written in hard times, others in moments of joy. He was known as the poet "of smallness and simplicity - the best".
Having obtained his matriculation certificate, in 1923 he started teaching at elementary schools.
In 1932 he became a specialist in skin diseases. He was known for his humility and his greatheartedness in dealing with his patients, especially those suffering from leprosy.
This aesthetic concern emerges frequently in his literary work, so much so that he was known as the "Poet of Beauty" amongst his contemporaries. In 1931, together with his friend Ġużè Bonnici, he founded the Għaqda tal-Malti Università, which is active to date, and started issuing the magazine Leħen il-Malti ("Voice of the Maltese").
Rużar Briffa died on 22 February 1963.
His full biography was released in 1984 by Professor Oliver Friggieri. The Maltese town of Mosta contains a road named in his honour, Triq Rużar Briffa. for me is by no means a matter of amusement, but rather of great suffering. should only aim to reach the heart of the heart of man, and even if it arrives at it just once, then poetry would have reached its climax.