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UST Publishing House Bags “Publisher of the Year” Award at the 30th National Book Awards |
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The University of Santo Tomas (UST) Publishing House was named “Publisher of the Year” during the recent 30th National Book Awards held last 12 November 2011 at the National Museum. Charlson Ong’s “Blue Angel, White Shadow: A Novel” (UST Publishing House) bagged the National Book Award for Fiction while “Sagad sa Buto: Hospital Diary at Iba Pang Sanaysay” (UST Publishing House) by Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr. won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction Prose.
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Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz is new NBDB Chair |
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The Board of Governors unanimously elected Flor Marie “Neni” Sta. Romana-Cruz as the new Chair of the NBDB during their 194th Regular Board Meeting last 28 October 2011. Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz replaced Dr. Dennis Gonzalez, who chaired the Book Board for ten (10) years beginning from November 2001 up to September 2011.
Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz is an award-winning writer, an accomplished educator, a noted children’s book critic, a reading advocate and freelance journalist. Prior to her appointment to the NBDB, Chairperson Romana-Cruz chaired the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) and was likewise a board member of the “Sa Aklat Sisikat” Foundation, an organization which promotes book reading and lifelong learning. Some of the award-winning books she authored were the following: “Why the Piña has a Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folk Tales About Fruits” which won the 1993 National Book Award for Children’s Literature and a biography of Gabriela Silang which received a National Book Award citation for excellence in 1992. Her more recent works are the highly successful companion gift books “You Know You’re Filipino If….,” “Don’t Take a Bath on a Friday: Philippine Superstitions and Folk Beliefs,” and “Ngalang Pinoy: A Primer on Filipino Wordplay,” all published by Tahanan Books.
Chairperson Sta. Romana-Cruz graduated cum laude from St. Scholastica’s College and holds a master’s degree in English Literature from the Ateneo de Manila University. She has also taken courses in children’s literature from Michigan State University. Neni taught writing to talented elementary school students at International School-Manila, where she headed the Children’s Media Center.
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NBDB Chair Bats for a Decentralized Textbook Evaluation Process |
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In a speech before book development stakeholders during the recently concluded Manila International Book Fair, NBDB Chairman Dennis T. Gonzalez reiterated his proposal for the Department of Education to decentralize the evaluation of textbooks for DepEd procurement, in order to raise the effectiveness of the evaluation process and minimize the entry of substandard books in public schools.
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Civil Service Commission’s Digital Book Design Contest Winners |
The NBDB and Civil Service Commission (CSC) congratulate the winners of the recently-concluded Digital Book Design Contest, held as part of celebrations for the 111th Philippine Civil Service Anniversary. The contest was open to all government employees, and entrants were tasked to design a book cover that will be used as the cover for their annual folio and other official publications of the Commission.
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30th National Book Awards Finalists |
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The NBDB and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC) are pleased to announce the finalists for the 30th National Book Awards.
Winners will be announced during the awarding ceremonies on November 12 at the National Museum.
LITERARY DIVISION
Fiction Category
Blue Angel, White Shadow: A Novel by Charlson Ong (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House);
Below The Crying Mountain by Criselda Yabes (The University of the Philippines Press);
Gun Dealers' Daughter by Gina Apostol (Anvil Publishing, Inc.); and
Lumbay ng Dila by Genevieve L. Asenjo (C&E Publishing, Inc.)
Nonfiction Prose Category
Sagad sa Buto: Hospital Diary at Iba Pang Sanaysay by Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr. (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House);
Sarena's Story: The Loss of a Kingdom by Criselda Yabes (The University of the Philippines Press); and
Builder of Bridges: The Rudy Cuenca Story by Jose Dalisay, Jr. and Antonette Reyes (Anvil Publishing, Inc.)
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