Awards
- In 1971 he won First Prize for Poetry by the Maltese government
- In 1972 he won the Ġuzé Muscat Azzopardi prize for poetry
- In 1975 the Circolo Culturale Rhegium Julii of Reggio Calabria awarded him with a silver plaque for his poetry
- In 1977 he won the International Prize of Mediterranean Culture for Poetry, awarded by the Centro di Cultura Mediterranea of Palermo
- In 1979 he was awarded First Prize and a Special Diploma for Poetry in the First Category by the Centro Culturale Artistico Letterario - Città di Brindisi
- In 1979 he won the Malta Literary Award's 1st prize for the first volume of his auto-biography Toni tal-Baħri (Toni, the Seaman's Son, published 1978)
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