Teacher, journalist and author, Concetto La Malfa, has lived in Ireland for the past fifty years.

As a journalist he has been the editor for thirty one years of  Italia Stampa, a printed magazine for the Italian community, as well as a correspondent for and contributor to Italian and Irish newspapers and radio stations.

He is now the editor of italvideonewstv.net, an Italian online magazine in Ireland.

As an author, Concetto La Malfa has eight books to his credit:

· “Ricordi di Sicilia” (in Italian)

· “Book of Poems” (in bilingual format)

· “Stanze in famiglia” (play in bilingual format)

· “Una macchia nel Sole” (fiction in bilingual format)

· “A brief History of Italians in Ireland” (in English)

· “Presenza Italiana in Irlanda” (in Italian)

· “Funny Encounters and language Misdemeanours”

     (co-author with Vincent Caprani - in English)

· “Amnesia” (fiction in English)

With these works he has won four literary prizes and

special distinctions in Italy and one in Ireland:

1989 Second prize AMICIZIA for Poetry (Sicily);

1989 Special Award for all literary sections “Giovanni

        Gronchi Literary Competition” (Italy);

1991 Third Prize “CARDO DI VIAREGGIO” for Short

         Stories  (Italy)

2000 Special attestation at “IL LINGOTTINO” Book Fair

         (Sicily)

2001 Second prize for poetry at the Dunlaoghaire

         Rathdown Literary competition (Ireland).