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Philippines Graphic
By Philippines Graphic

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National Artist Nick Joaquin will always be the quintessential literary giant in the galaxy of poets, fictionists, essayists, and screenwriters in the Philippines.

As the first Editor-in-Chief of the revived Philippines Graphic, under the aegis of the late business mogul, philanthropist, and Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua, Joaquin never lost touch with the Graphic until his death on April 29, 2004 at the age of 86.

Now, for the first time, the Philippines Graphic reveals the last four years in the life of the writer. The photos may have faded and the words speak of time and place now resting in the memories of people who really knew Nick Joaquin. People like noted poet-essayist Marra PL. Lanot.

It is a warm and deeply personal essay on Nick Joaquin and makes true the observation— Memory is all that matters in the end.

ALSO, IN THIS ISSUE

  • A tribute to the remarkable friendship of three men: National Artist Nick Joaquin, Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua, and Judge Pedro T. Santiago, Philippines Graphic Chairman of the Board.
  • Hospital Best Practices in the handling of COVID-19—Papers delivered by Dr. Gerardo “Gap” Legaspi, Director of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and Andres M. Licaros, Jr., President and CEO of Asian Hospital and Medical Center
  • IN OUR WELLNESS SECTION: Celebrate World Voice Day by looking after your voice
  • BM Cycling Season 1: What an amazing ride. What couldn’t happen on the road, the BusinessMirror accomplished on air—thanks to the wonders of technology called the Internet, Facebook and Youtube.
  • First Jab: The politics of the COVID-19 vaccine. A global report on how politics is coloring the production and dissemination of the COVID-19 vaccine

CATCH ALL THESE AND MORE IN THE PHILIPPINES GRAPHIC APRIL 2021 REGULAR ISSUE…NOW AVAILABLE AT LAZADA.

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Started in 1927, the Philippines Graphic is the longest-running printed magazine of national circulation that provides relevant news and features and promotes Philippine literature.

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The peso paradox: Why more financially literate Filipinos are still struggling to build wealth

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On a payday morning somewhere in Bulacan, a mother walks into a sari-sari store clutching a handful of coins. She asks for a sachet of shampoo, P10-worth of cooking oil, and a...
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Joaquin: In the nick of time

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The country’s best writers and cultural institutions paid homage this year to the 100th anniversary of the late National Artist Nick Joaquin. Ironically, had Joaquin been around, he might never have allowed the tributes and accolades given in his honor. Or maybe, he would, but at great discomfort. Said writer Jose ‘Pete’ Lacaba, “Sinasabi sa amin ni Nick pag dumadalaw kami sa mga burol ‘ayaw ko ng mga tribute-tribute. Ibalot niyo na lang ako sa banig, itapon niyo ako sa Pasig River.’ Pero tinatanggap din naman niya pag binigyan siya ng award [Nick would tell us whenever we were in a wake, ‘I don’t like tributes. Just wrap me in a mat and throw me in the Pasig River. But he still would accept every time he is given an award].”
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The World in the time of Nick Joaquin

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Europe, the seat of everything that was grand, powerful, and prosperous, was caught in the teeth of the First World War, the year Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was born on May 4, 1917. It was half a world away from a boy who would emerge half a century later as one of the greatest literary minds in a poor and exploited country still caught in its own, long drawn-out war of independence in 1917.
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They who wrote for the Philippines Graphic

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“Our sense ... of our country is a sustained act of imagination. From that vantage, it can be said that our writers and artists, who are men and women of imagination, create our country (italics mine). That is to say: they evoke those images of ourselves as we live life day and night, those images of ourselves which we share and by which we recognize our nativity. We are our own best interpreters of our history and culture because it is we who have lived through that history and created our own values by which we live.” —National Artist for Literature Gemino Abad