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28th National Book Awards winners announced

The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC) announced the winners of the 28^th National Book Awards last November 14, during the awards ceremonies held at the Ayala Museum in Makati City.

Anvil Publishing, Inc. bagged this year's Publisher of the Year Award for having published the most number of winning books this year.

List of Winners:

Arts & Alfonso T. Ongpin Prize for Best Book on Art: The Shared Voice: Chanted and Spoken Narratives from the Philippines, Grace Nono (Anvil Publishing and Fundacion Santiago)

Autobiography/Biography: Afro-Asia in Upheaval: A Memoir of Front-line Reporting, Amando Doronila (Anvil Publishing)

General Nonfiction: Ah, Wilderness! A Journey Through Sacred Time, Simeon Dumdum Jr. (Ateneo de Manila University Press)

Leisure: Café by the Ruins: Memories and Recipes, Lia Llamado, Adelaida Lim and Feliz Perez (Anvil Publishing)

Literary Criticism/Literary History: Our Scene So Fair: Filipino Poetry in English, 1905 to 1955, Gémino H. Abad (University of the Philippines Press)

Poetry: The Gods We Worship Live Next Door, Bino A Realuyo (Anvil Publishing)

Professions: Sine Gabay: A Film Study Guide, Nick Deocampo and the Center for New Cinema (Anvil Publishing)

Sciences: Diabetes is BitterSweet: A Guide to Understanding Diabetes, edited by Estrellita V. Fernando-Lopez, (SweetStar Publication)

Social Sciences: Competing Views and Strategies on Agrarian Reform, Volume I: International Perspective and Volume II: Philippine Perspective, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. (Ateneo de Manila University Press)

Design: The Philippines Through European Lenses: Late 19th Century Photographs from the Meekamp Van Embden Collection, designed by Karl Frederick M. Castro (Ateneo de Manila University Press)

This year’s trophy was designed by young sculptor and TOYM awardee Michael Cacnio.

The 28^th National Book Awards was sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Ayala Foundation, Ayala Museum, Manila Bulletin, Fuji Xerox Phils., Michael Cacnio, and the Metro Gallery.

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