I was in Singapore last week with poet Vim Nadera and publisher Karina Bolasco for a British Council-sponsored seminar on “Animating Literature: Bringing Texts to Life.” I like to think of myself as a ...

The student group WIKA Kabataan asked me to explain to more than a hundred of their members last week in UP Diliman the state of Philippine literature today. Here are some of the thoughts I shared ...

Get ready as the National Book Development Board (NBDB) hosts one of the country’s largest, most anticipated book fairs this year: the Philippine Book Festival (PBF), highlighting Filipino literature ...

The literary world of the Philippines has had little exposure in Korea but one corporate foundation is changing that by offering a glimpse into the country's literature. On Friday, the Hansae Yes24 ...

While Akdang Pinoy is a year-long project, the group released reading prompts specifically for Buwan Ng Wika to boost Filipino authors and works further MANILA, Philippines – Calling all bookworms! If ...

This is a press release. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), led by its chairman Felipe M. de Leon Jr. and OIC-executive director Adelina M. Suemith, and the Komisyon sa Wikang ...

With pen and paper, she expressed her creativity and wrote beautiful poems and short stories about her family. Source: Merlinda Bobis Merlinda Bobis was recognised by the Philippine Embassy as one of ...

LIKE other forms of art, literature mirrors our country’s culture and history as Filipinos. Five hundred years of the Filipinos’ story will be explored in this year’s celebration of National ...

A group of Filipino professors, scholars, and students in the Philippines is leading a campaign against government steps to remove the mandatory teaching of Filipino language and Panitikan (literature ...

In this book, there’s an essay about a young girl recalling how she stood with one foot on the doorknob and another on a chair back, dangling from and peeking above the transom of a door, to see what ...