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Ramona Depares

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Ramona Depares’s Biography

Ramona Depares is an award-winning journalist and author, and the winner of Best in Arts & Culture at the Istitut tal-Ġurnalisti Maltin 2025 Press Awards, for the in-depth feature Maltese Theatre Has A Longevity Problem: Can It Be Fixed?

During the same awards, she was also 1st Runner Up in the category of Journalism Promoting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with her in-depth piece ‘The Should Be No Room To Question Accessibility in Maltese Theatre’.

Ramona works as a freelance journalist and editor. She is the editor of Encore Arts & Culture Magazine and also runs her own culture and lifestyle website - https://ramonadepares.com.

Books Published

Ramona is also the author of three best-selling books. The first two - Beltin: Stejjer Minn Nies Minsija and The Patient in Hospital Zero - were published under the Merlin Publishers imprint. The third book, Katya: Easy on the Tonic, is a biography of one of Malta’s first openly transgender women, which was commissioned by MGRM (Malta).

Her creative work has also appeared on international publications such as IHRAM’s The Feminine Voice of Malta and Beyond Worlds, among others.
Journalism with a focus on culture and social issues

As a journalist, Ramona has focused mostly on cultural and social issues, working to raise awareness about issues she is passionate about, such as migration, inclusion and diversity, and equal gender rights. Between 2010 and 2019 she ran a regular blog on the Times of Malta that was dedicated to these issues.

For close to a decade Ramona was the editor of the Arts & Culture pullout on the Sunday Times of Malta, responsible for cementing the first fully-fledged cultural section on mainstream media. Under her tenure, the section grew into a 24-page supplement with autonomy from the run-off paper, with a team of journalists focusing on Maltese and international coverages.

She introduced investigative cultural journalism to Malta, receiving the Award for Cultural Journalism as soon as it was introduced in 2015, a year after receiving her first journalism award as Best in Opinion Writing.

In 2019 she left her role at the Times of Malta to shift to a freelance career as a writer, combining journalism with creative writing.