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Our best Filipino books of 2020
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Dec 29, 2020 2:57:26 PM
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endIndex: We asked a few critics, writers, and publishers to give us some of their best or favorite reads of 2020.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) I’d like to think there are more Filipinos who read this year. The success of online book fairs such as Aklatan and the ease of having a book or books delivered to your home have certainly satiated our need to explore worlds elsewhere or understand the direness of our situation.
In Glenn Diaz’s essay on the function of fiction in the time of the pandemic, he says, “Fictional stories are most ‘instructive,’ I feel, in these moments of overlaps and slippages, when they approximate our ‘real’ experiences and perceptions just enough that we are jarred to take a second hard look. What fiction provides is not ‘information’ or ‘facts’ in the way that guidebooks or think pieces dis
Glenn Diaz doesn’t have a problem with being too political
Written by Oliver Emocling
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endIndex: Glenn Diaz, whose writing often wrestles with gargantuan concepts like capitalism and imperialism, on how he finds comfort in writing. Photo courtesy of GLENN DIAZ
UPDATE: Glenn Diaz s second novel Yñiga, was recently announced as one of the shortlisted works for The Novel Prize, a new biennial prize for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. More details below.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life) Glenn Diaz didn’t want to graduate on time. Taking up a degree in secondary education at the University of the Philippines, he knew then that life would go downhill after college.