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NBDB and MCC announce winners of the 27th National Book Awards |
The best published books of 2007 were given special recognition when the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle announced the winners of the 27th National Book Awards last November 15 at the Yuchengco Museum.
The Ateneo de Manila University Press bagged the Publisher of the Year Award. Among the writers who won awards for their books published in the Philippines in 2007 were Senator Edgardo J. Angara, Senator Juan Flavier, Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, Conrad de Quiros, Fr. Joaquin Bernas, and Tony Perez.
This year’s trophies were designed by young sculptor Glenn Cagandahan.
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Filipino author wins 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize |
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Filipino author Miguel Syjuco wins the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado, a fictional account of a young Filipino caught within a notorious scandal spanning over the Philippine history.
The panel of judges for the 2008 prize praised Ilustrado:
"The shortlist for the Man Asian prize testifies to the great vitality of the novel in Asian societies undergoing hectic and unexpected transformations. In the end, we had to choose; and Ilustrado seems to us to possess formal ambition, linguistic inventiveness and sociopolitical insight in the most satisfying measure. Brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed, it covers a large and tumultuous historical period with seemingly effortless skill. It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humour."
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NBDB holds Marathon Reading of Noli Me Tangere |
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The National Book Development Board (NBDB) invites everyone to
experience one of the greatest Philippine novels ever written as it
stages a marathon reading of Dr. Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere on
November 8 and 9 at the Filipinas Heritage Library in Makati City.
Celebrities, artists, musicians, poets, and authors will each give life
to the 64 chapters of Rizal’s opus, which will begin at 1 p.m. on
November 8 until noon of the following day. The reading will commence
with a lecture by National Artist Virgilio Almario, whose Tagalog
translation of Noli Me Tangere is recognized as one of the best
translations ever written.
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Senate okays 150M book development trust fund |
The Senate Committee on Education, Arts, and Culture chaired by Sen. Alan Peter “Compañero” S. Cayetano has recently approved on second reading a measure creating the 150-million-pesos National Book Development Trust Fund to support Filipino authorship nationwide.
“If passed into law, the interest derived from the Trust Fund will enable at least sixty-five (65) grants worth P150,000.00 each per region to be awarded yearly. This will enable deserving writers or researchers in the Philippines to produce or finish excellent manuscripts on a variety of topics or subject areas for publication,” Cayetano said in his sponsorship speech.
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NBDB and LRTA launch TULAAN SA TREN |
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 It isn’t every day that you get to fill a single train with a National Artist, venerated poets, and celebrities. Last August 9, the NBDB, together with the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA), was able to make this seemingly impossible feat happen with the successful launch of Tulaan sa Tren.
National Artist Virgilio Almario, Gemino Abad, Jose Lacaba, Marra Lanot, Paolo Manalo, and Vim Nadera and other Philippine Literature bigwigs rode a jam-packed train with the public from Santolan to Recto, in a historic and unforgettable event where the poems recorded by Edu Manzano. Miriam Quiambao, Nikki Gil, Rhea Santos, Matt Evans, Christine Bersola-Babao, Romnick Sarmenta, Lyn Ching-Pascual, Rhea Santos, and Chin-chin Gutierrez were played and heard by the public for the first time. The poems are now regularly heard by LRT Line 2 passengers over the public announcement system in Line 2 stations. The literary experience is all the more enlivened by posters of the poems placed inside the trains that the passengers can look up at while taking their everyday commute to school or work.
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