Publisher’s Note

T. Anthony C. Cabangon
By T. Anthony C. Cabangon
T. Anthony C. Cabangon, Publisher, Philippines Graphic/Philippines Graphic Reader and the BusinessMirror

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            It took us about a year and a half before we could publish again first-time literary works in English through the generous support of San Miguel Corporation. We hope to gather more patrons in the coming months to sustain our plans for a more robust, engaging, and expansive way to promote Philippine Literature in English in the country.

            We come back with multi-lingual poet, essayist, and freelance journalist Marra PL Lanot as Literary Editor of a Section that has been transformed into a once-a-month, companion Literary Magazine to the main Philippines Graphic magazine.

            The Philippines Graphic Reader will be published in newsprint and will contain exclusively four short stories and four poems selected from literary works submitted to the Graphic via its new email: GraphicLitRevival2022@gmail.com

         As you know, the revival of Philippine literature writing in the Graphic signals the resumption of the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards, which we hope to hold in the first quarter of 2023. Open to veteran and young literary writers, we encourage our youth to send to us their short stories and poetry in the Graphic Reader, since the NJLA will be having a separate category for the youth.

T. Anthony C. Cabangon

T. Anthony C. Cabangon is the publisher of Philippines Graphic, Cook Magazine, and the BusinessMirror.

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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