He published numerous works, including the best-selling novels "Il-Gaġġa" ("The Cage"), which was the basis of "Gaġġa" the 1971 film directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi, "Samuraj", which won the Rothmans Prize, "Paceville", which won the Government's Literary Medal. and "Il-Holma Maltija" ("The Maltese Dream"), about which literary critic Norbert Ellul-Vincenti wrote, "there is nothing of its magnitude in Maltese literature." Former Prime Minister and playwright Alfred Sant considered it Sammut's "masterpiece", and British author and poet Marjorie Boulton called it "a colossal work".