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Jess Abrera is one of the pioneers of The Philippine Inquirer(PDI), working there for 24 years. He is the chief cartoonist and comics editor of The PDI where his comic strips A. Lipin & Pinoy Nga! are published. Mr. Abrera received the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle for Pinoy Nga! He won Best Humor in Cartoons from the Catholic Mass Media Award (CMMA) and Best Editorial Cartoon in , and entering him into CMMA’s Hall of Fame. He also received the grand prize for children’s book illustration in for the book Handyong from The Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY).

Ericson Acosta is a cultural worker, peasant rights activist and former political prisoner. He is the author of Mula Tarima Hanggang (UP Press, ), a collection
of poems and songs he wrote while in prison. He is a member of SELDA (Samahan ng Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at Aresto) and CAP (Concerned Artists of the Philippines).

Ani Rosa Almario is the Vice-President of Adarna House, Inc. She is also school director and founder of the Raya School. She is the president of the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP), and the secretary general of the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY).

Corazon S. Alvina has been engaged in cultural work for more than 25 years: in museums, publications, and teaching, as director of the National Museum of the Philippines (), and first director, then president of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (). As part of the original faculty for its post graduate program on cultural heritage, she was associate professorial lecturer in the graduate school of the University of Santo Tomas mentoring on museum contexts and issues, and education and interpretation (exhibition design). Her latest international curatorial work was Philippines Archipel d’Echange, an exhibition of ethnographic art in , for the Musee de quai Branly in Paris

Bulosan

 Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 2, &#; September 11, ) was an English-languageFilipino novelist and poet who spent most of his life in the UnitedStates. His best-known work is the semi-autobiographical Americas is in the Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in the Philippines in the rural village of Mangusmana, in the town of Binalonan, Pangasinan. There is considerable debate around his actual birth date, as he himself used several dates, but is generally considered the most reliable answer, based on his baptismal records, but according to the late Lorenzo Duyanen Sampayan, his childhood playmate and nephew, Carlos was born on November 2, Most of his youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer. It is during his youth that he and his family were economically impoverished by the rich and political elite, which would become one of the main themes of his writing. His home town is also the starting point of his famous semi-autobiographical novel, America is in the Heart.Following the pattern of many Filipinos during the Americancolonialperiod, he left for America on July 22, at age 17, in the hope of finding salvation from the economic depression of his home. He never again saw his Philippine homeland. Upon arriving in Seattle, he met with racism and was forced to work in low paying jobs. He worked as a farmworker, harvesting grapes and asparagus, and doing other types of hard work in the fields of California. He also worked as a dishwasher with his brother and Lorenzo in the famous Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. He was active inlabourmovement along the Pacific coast of the UnitedStates and edited the Yearbook for InternationalLongshoreandWarehouseUnion Local 37, a predominantly Filipino American cannerytradeunion based in Seattle.

After many years of discrimination, starvation and sickness, Bulosan had to undergo surgery for tuberculosis in the Los Angeles County Sanitarium, now the USC Medical Center. The tuberculosis operations made

BY SUSAN CLAIRE AGBAYANI PUBLISHED NOV 28, AM

Nicole Angala Shy

“We all say awards don’t mean anything until you win them. And [winning a] Palanca award is a great honor. It’s a great institution,” said Miguel Antonio Alfredo Luarca, whose full-length plays in both English and Filipino won in the 71st Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. The ceremony was held on Monday, Nov. 27 at the Philippine International Convention Center.

“The winning entry for the Dulang Ganap ng Haba titled Nekropolis is a dystopic play which I wrote in the U.S., and was staged by Tanghalang Pilipino in April this year,” said the playwright also known in theater circles as “Guelan.”

Luarca’s other winning entry, Dogsblood, won first place in the Full-Length Play category. “It’s an adaptation of Ajax—an imagined future, post-Duterte. Very bleak. [It’s about] a policeman whose eyes are slowly opened to the realities of the drug war; and how it’s a war against the poor, and it’s a political tool to neutralize the enemies of the administration,” he told PhilSTAR L!fe in an online interview.

“These two plays were crafted here in the U.S. My classmates have read these works, and have commented on them and critiqued them. My teachers are all excellent. I am learning so much,” continued Luarca, who is completing his MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College City University of New York.

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The 71st Palanca Awards took place on Monday, Nov.  Nicole Angala Shy

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The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature celebrated its 71 year, holding the awarding ceremony at the Philippine International Convention Center as part of its National Heritage Series.

This year, it added 30 new names—first-time awardees—in its prestigious list of the most prolific Filipino writers, poets, and playwrigh

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In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Santos and the surname or paternal family name is Tinio.

Rolando Santos Tinio (March 5, – July 7, ) was a Filipinopoet, dramatist, director, actor, critic, essayist and educator.

Biography

Rolando Tinio was a Philippine National Artist for Theater and Literature. He was born in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila on March 5, As a child, Tinio was fond of organizing and directing his playmates for costumed celebrations. He was an active participant in the Filipino movie industry and enjoyed working with Philippine celebrities who he himself had admired in his childhood. Tinio himself became a film actor and scriptwriter. He is often described as a religious, well-behaved and gifted person. Tinio graduated with honors (a magna cum laude achiever) with a degree in Philosophy from the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas at age 18 in and an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing: Poetry from the University of Iowa.

In Iowa, Tinio was known as a great writer that used English as the medium of the Filipino writer. He wrote his poetic collection: Rage and Ritual which won an award from the University of the Philippines. Bienvenido Lumbera, also an alumnus of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, describes this collection as elegant and with a truly contemporary tone if taken from the European literary critical view. At this point in time, Tinio believed that only English can hone the themes that he wanted to communicate in his works. Once, in a conference, an author delivered his belief in the value of the Tagalog dialect in Creative Writing. In response to this, Tinio published an article in the scholarly journal Philippine Studies, which contained parts of English poems translated into Tagalog. The article's purpose