I TRANSLATED the late Ambassador Leon Maria Guerrero s prize-winning biography of Jose Rizal, The First Filipino, into Filipino. In an act of verbal gymnastics, I am translating that introduction into English for this column.
What do Lucio San Pedro, Lucrecia Kasilag, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio, Ramon Santos, Antonio Molina, Francisco Feliciano, Ernani Cuenco, and Ryan Cayabyab have in common? They are all in the roster of the country’s revered National Artists for Music. National Artist for Film Marilou Diaz-Abaya in Baguio with Cecile Licad and Pablo…
If you were at the Philippine Book Festival that took place at the World Trade Center earlier this month, you would have been surprised to find how many Filipinos were writing, publishing, selling, buying and reading books.