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 ...

TWO weeks ago, I wrote an article where I highlighted the importance of preserving sources, documents, books and old imprints. The existence of these should not be taken for granted, as in a nation ...

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 ...

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 ...