Solidaridad Publishing House releases three of F. Sionil Jose’s latest books completed before the National Artist’s death on Jan. 6 this year.
A necrological...
Pomp and circumstance is rarely a thing in local literary circles. Writing is often lonely work, punctuated by bursts of frenetic production and post-production...
I met Edith L. Tiempo on the night I won my first national literary award in 1979, from Focus Philippines. She headed the panel of judges. My story “Old and Unborn” placed third, but having her as one of the judges made me...
For her arresting collection of poems, Soy (I am), multi-awarded poet, essayist, and trilingual writer Marra PL. Lanot won the Hispanic-Philippine Literature Award at the 2023 Premio Antonio M. Abad.
The Premio Antonio M. Abad is one of the few Spanish-language writing contests that...
A Google-search of his name will not yield much data or information. He is probably one of the Filipino fiction writers from the 1950s to the 1960s who does not have an exact date of birth that can be sourced online.
But his stories...
The late great Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta became one of the Philippines’ major poets “regardless of gender” but her first love was music, and she was trained to be a concert artist.
Why, she could have been another Van Cliburn (“better,” the nationalist music lover...
Philippine history boiled, bubbled, and spewed trouble in the years that marked the birth and growing up years of Paz Marquez-Benitez.
The future short story writer, editor, and educator was born to a world of privilege on March 3, 1894 in provincial Tayabas (now...
When Carmen Guerrero Nakpil peacefully breathed her last on July 30, 2018, I knew I was witnessing the end of an era of good and insightful writing.
There was a moment of denial when I received the early morning text from her daughter, Gemma,...