A translation from Spanish into Filipino of the satirical novel, Crónical del Rey Pasmado, by the late Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, a modern master of Spanish literature. Published by Cacho Publishing House and translated by Marlon James Sales.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer whose become a major figure in Spanish contemporary literature whose novels blended realism with fantasy. Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism, essays, and plays. His career as a writer began in Oviedo, but developed largely in Madrid.

Ballester received a degree in philosophy from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He began his career as a drama critic in the 1940s. He left Spain for a post at the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1966, and remained there until 1973 as the University’s first distinguished professor. In 1975 he moved to the city of Salamanca, where he remained until his death. After his return to Spain, he was increasingly celebrated: In 1975 he was elected member of the Real Academia Española, and was awarded the premier Spanish literary prize, the Cervantes Prize, in 1985.

His writing is laced with the cultural politics which reflects his connection to Franco’s Falange party. He “was an enthusiastic Falangist and Francoist ideologue” as they described him. His first novel, Javier Mariño, appeared in 1943, and he continued to publish novels almost until his death, receiving major prizes for some of them.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Marlon James Sales is a published translator and poet.  He taught Spanish at the Instituto Cervantes de Manila for five years and delivered courses on Spanish language and culture, translation, and Fil-Hispanic literature.

Since 2014, he became a part of the Social Media and Outreach Committee of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS). I have been nominated as member of The Australian Association for Literary Translation for 2015.

Sales graduated with a degree in BA in Communication Research, magna cum laude from University of the Philippines. He took his Master’s degree in Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Valladolid in Spain, and a Ph. D in Translation Studies in Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where he’s also teaching Spanish and Translation Studies.

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• Ang Kuwento ng Haring Tulala

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In Birdflight, a large group of captive birds led by Manaul, a Philippine Eagle, and aided by unlikely creatures, try to engineer a daring escape from a private aviary in the city. Their aim is to find a mate and a companion for the latest and youngest captive of the aviary: a rare Sulu Hornbill.

About the Author

Aside from being a teacher, Carla M. Pacis is also a writer, an editor, and a former bookstore owner. Her work The Dream Weavers bagged the second prize in Children’s Short Story category of the prestigious Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 1995. She also received Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) Writer’s Prize for her short stories for children.

Pacis obtained her bachelor’s degree in economics at the Assumption College. She received her master’s degree in creative writing from the University of the Philippines. Now, she is a lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman and at De La Salle University. She was also Resident Fellow of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. During summer breaks, she holds reading workshops for people of all ages about the importance of reading.

The Birdflight author also edited several books such as Water in the Ring of Fire, a collection of folk tales. Some of her books are O.C.W: A Young Boy’s Search for his Mother (Anvil Publishing, 2001), Owl Friends (Anvil Publishing, 1997), Enrique El Negro (Anvil Publishing, 2001) among others.

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• Birdflight (Filipino Edition)

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Kristyn Maslog-Levis is a freelance journalist based in Sydney. Several of her works have been published in The New York Times and Al Jazeera. She worked as a TV reporter for ABS-CBN before finishing her master’s degree in communication under the ASEAN scholarship at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Kristyn is also an avid photographer with several photos published in various magazines and exhibited in a couple of local and international exhibitions.

Maslog-Levis has been working as a journalist both internationally and locally for over 13 years. In 2011, she independently published her first children’s picture book, The Dragon and the Lizard, which is about a farmer who saves a kingdom from a villainous dragon. In 2013, she also self-published her second children’s picture book, We Have It All, which revolves around a family who lives in a house with no TV, computers, and electronic games.

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• The Girl Between Two Worlds

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From the former policy adviser at the Philippine House of Representatives comes a new book that sheds light to the Philippines’ sea dispute with China:

This compact, insightful book offers an up-to-the-minute guide to understanding the evolution of maritime territorial disputes in East Asia, exploring their legal, political-security and economic dimensions against the backdrop of a brewing Sino-American rivalry for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. It traces the decades-long evolution of Sino-American relations in Asia, and how this pivotal relationship has been central to prosperity and stability in one of the most dynamics regions of the world. It also looks at how middle powers—from Japan and Australia to India and South Korea—have joined the fray, trying to shape the trajectory of the territorial disputes in the Western Pacific, which can, in turn, alter the future of Asia—and ignite an international war that could re-configure the global order.

The book examines how the maritime disputes have become a litmus test of China’s rise, whether it has and will be peaceful or not, and how smaller powers such as Vietnam and the Philippines have been resisting Beijing’s territorial ambitions. Drawing on extensive discussions and interviews with experts and policy-makers across the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights the growing geopolitical significance of the East and South China Sea disputes to the future of Asia—providing insights into how the so-called Pacific century will shape up.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard J. Heydarian is an Assistant Professor in political science and international relations at De La Salle University and a foreign affairs and economic analyst. He was a policy adviser at the Philippine House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015.

Heydarian obtained his bachelor’s degree in political science at University of the Philippines, Diliman. He also received his master’s degree in International Studies at his alma mater. He is a regular contributor to Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has written for or/and interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNN, CNBC, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME, Reuters, NPR, USA Today, and other leading publications.

His noted work is How Capitalism Failed the Arab World: The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Arab Uprisings (Zed Books, 2014).

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• Asia’s New Battlefield: The US, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific

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With his primary interest in Southeast Asian politics, Paul Hutchcroft delves deeper into the strife and the still on-going peace process in Mindanao.

Across more than four decades, the conflict between the national government and Muslim liberation forces in the southern Philippines has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. Two landmark agreements under the presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III—the first in 2012 and the second in 2014—raised high hopes that peace might finally be on the way. But the peace process stalled, and has yet to regain momentum, after a botched counterterrorism operation in early 2015.

This volume provides both in-depth examination of the latest stage of a still-ongoing peace process as well as richly textured analysis of the historical, political, and economic context underlying one of the most enduring conflicts in the world. It is thus an extremely important foundational resource in the continuing quest for peace and prosperity in Mindanao.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Hutchcroft is a scholar of comparative and Southeast Asian politics who has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy. He has also written on the politics of corruption.

Hutchcroft obtained his Master’s degree in International Relations at Yale University, and then eventually got his Ph.D. in Political Science. He finished his dissertation while at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Consequently, he got into academia by rendering his service for fifteen years at the Department of Political Science and Center for Southeast Asian Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also been a recipient of fellowships from Fulbright-Hays in the years 1989, 1995-96, and 2003. Presently, he is a professor at the Australian National University.

His major work is Booty Capitalism: The Politics of Banking in the Philippines (Cornell and Ateneo, 1998). Moreover, his research interests are focused on state formation and territorial politics, state-society relations, structures of governance, and corruption among others.

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• Mindanao: The Long Journey to Peace and Prosperity

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Ibong Adarna: Isang Koridong Pilipino by Myrna Torreliza and Teresita Fortunato

Ibong Adarna is one among the esteemed list of Philippine literary canon. Whether someone will read it for leisure or for academic purposes, it is definitely engaging and instructive. Because it is geared for K to 12 Curriculum, it will cater to the younger learners of today.

About the Authors

As an academician, Myrna A. Torreliza already achieved greater heights. She was a resource speaker, moderator, and facilitator in local and international conferences/seminars such as “The Multilingual Challenge in Philippine Education, Pambansang Seminar,” “Retooling para sa K to 12,” and “Unang Kumperensyang Pandaigdig sa Wikang Filipino.” She became the In-Country Director of the Advanced Filipino Abroad Program (AFAP) which was sponsored by the United States Department of Education and a project of Fullbright Hays Group Projects Abroad.

She finished her Bachelor of Science in Education degree at the University of Santo Tomas. Later on, she obtained her Ph.D. degree at Manuel L. Quezon University.

Among her major works are Sining ng Komunikasyon sa Akademikong Filipino (National Book Store, 2011-2012), Ugnayan: Komunikasyon sa Akademikong Filipino (National Book Store, 2012), Preparing Learning Modules for Teachers (Anvil Publication, 2016), Ibong Adarna (Academic Publication, 2007), and Florante at Laura (Academic Publication, 2007).

Presently, she is a professor at the De La Salle University.

Similarly, Teresita Fortunato has also reached greater heights. She has been a Fulbright Asian scholar of the United States Fulbright-Hays program and is a current member of National Commission for the Culture and the Arts, National Committee Language and Translate.

Fajardo was born on July 11, 1949 in Cabanatuan City, Philippines. She is a daughter of Francisco Fortunato and Cristina Julian Fajardo Limon. She finished her degrees Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and her Master of Arts in Education at the Philippine Normal University. Later on, she received her degree Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics also at the same school. One of her major achievements is when she got certified in language testing at the Regional Language Center Singapore in 1990.

Among her major works are Ferdinand Blumentritt : isang buhay-Austrian para sa Pilipinas : ang kwento ng pinakamatalik na kaibigan at katoto ni Jose Rizal (De La Salle University Press, 1997) wherein she is the translator and Ibong Adarna: Isang Koridong Pilipino (Anvil Publishing, 2016).

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• Ibong Adarna: Isang Koridong Pilipino

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Aside from writing, Kristine Canon is also passionate about teaching. In fact, she teaches toddlers up to college level students. She also advocates for peace education and the inclusion of children with special needs.

Among her pioneering works are the children’s books Kita-kita Tayo! (Anvil Publishing, 2016), Pahingi Po? (Anvil Publishing, 2016), and Sakay Na! (Anvil Publishing, 2016). This series is dedicated to her youngest son Isaac, who is the inspiration for these books. The said titles revolve around the young child’s family life.

Her book Bakit Matagal ang Sundo Ko? [Why is my Mommy Late?] (Adarna House, 2001) bagged several awards such as the Grand Prize at PBBY-Salanga Writer’s Prize and another Grand Prize at the PBBY-Illustrator’s Prize in 2001.

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• Kita-kita Tayo!

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• Pahingi Po?

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• Sakay Na!

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Clinton Palanca, in this book, ponders the origins and influences of Filipino cuisine and discusses the distinct challenges and consequence of being a food writer.

In the last ten years, the Philippines has undergone nothing short of a culinary revolution.

At first as an expatriate living in London, then eventually fully immersed in the scene as a writer and critic, Philippine Daily Inquirer’s resident food reviewer chronicles the remarkable transformation of gastronomic backwater into a giddy, opulent, and at times overwhelming foodie scene.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clinton Palanca obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Literature (English) and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University. He also studied Sociology at the University of Oxford in England, United Kingdom.

He currently lives in Manila with his wife and two children and with his spaniel Bruno the Cavalier King Charles. He writes a regular column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and restaurant reviews for other publications.

Palanca has won awards for his fiction. In 1998, he released Landscapes (University of the Philippines Press, 1998), a book compiling his short stories and earlier works for children.

His most recent publication was My Angkong’s Noodles (Summit Publishing Co, Inc., 2015), a collection of classic recipes from the Chinese in the Philippines.

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• The Gullet: Dispatches on Philippine Food

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A collector of vintage and modern dictionaries, both of local and foreign literatures, Edgie Polistico’s interest in lexicography began when he desired to improve his vocabulary while in high school way back in 1984.

After a year of moving to Manila in 1996, he got a job that required him to travel across the country. Thus, he got to know more about the rest of the Philippines by exploring and dealing with locals.

In 1995, he started to work on his first dictionary, the Edgie Polistico’s Cebuano-English Dictionary. Through self-study, Polistico also created a database, wrote codes, and designed a software application of his first digital dictionary. To improve this digital dictionary, he even went back to school to study more about computer programming.

At last in 2008, he combined all food words and culinary terms he already had in his dictionaries. The result was the first copy of the Philippine Food, Cooking, and Dining Dictionary (Anvil Publishing, 2016).

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• Philippine Food, Cooking, & Dining Dictionary

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On The Edge is a compilation of twenty of the news reports by one of GMA News and Public Affairs’ award-winning broadcast journalists, Mr. Jiggy Manicad. The book features Mr. Manicad’s coverage of some of the most relevant and controversial local and international events.

About the Author

Rodrigo “Jiggy” Manicad was born in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, and grew up in the slums of San Pablo City, Laguna. He took up Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts at the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

During his college years, Manicad already showed his innate skills as he worked as a news writer for the UPLB Perspective, the official student publication of the university. He was also a student assistant for the UPLB Public Affairs Office wherein he wrote news and speeches.

After graduating, he started as a researcher for ABS-CBN. However, after three months, he resigned and went back to Los Baños to work as a writer. Later on, he got accepted as a writer at GMA, and soon was assigned to do field work.

And then, the rest was history.

Tucking more than 60 journalism awards under his belt including the UPLB Distinguished Alumnus Award for Public Service as well as those from the New York International Film and Video Festival, US International Film and Video Festival, Asian Television Awards, Catholic Mass Media Awards, and Ani ng Dangal Awards, Manicad considers his loving and caring family as his greatest achievement. He is married to maverick TV producer and director Marnie Manicad, and they have three kids: Sammy, Sabina, and Simone Maxine.

Manicad anchors and hosts GMA’s 24 Oras Weekend and Reporter’s Notebook and GMA News TV’s Quick Response Team (QRT).

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• On the Edge

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It’s never too early to start your Christmas shopping! Buy books for as low as P5 at the #AnvilChristmasSale!

The Anvil Publishing Grand Christmas Sales is from October 25 to December 10, 2016 (except holidays) from 10 AM to 7 PM at No. 25 Brixton St., Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig City.

Per DTI-FTEB SPD Permit No. 16013, Series of 2016.

Nick Deocampo’s continuing film saga investigates on its third volume how World War II affected the growth of cinema in the Philippines (1942-1945).

Revealed in the book is a vast wealth of information about Japanese wartime manipulation of motion pictures that would only lead to the inglorious end of the colonial film cycle at war’s conclusion. This valuable construction of the country’s wartime film history uncovers significant intellectual efforts made by Japanese film critics and film artists who formed the Propaganda Corps assigned to the country. They conceived for Filipinos a “national” identity for their cinema, even while this was wrapped in a fascist, colonial, and militaristic context.

Seventy years after the end of World War II, Deocampo triumphs over trauma and forgetfulness as he revisits the wartime period and its cinema. He provides a landmark contribution to historical memory as he uncovers one of the bleakest moments in Philippine film history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nick Deocampo is an exceptional personality in Philippine cinema—a prizewinning filmmaker, author, film teacher, scholar, film historian, film producer, and the director of the Center for New Cinema.

Deocampo obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts degree (cum laude) at the University of the Philippines — Diliman. He earned his Master of Arts degree in Cinema Studies at the New York University (1988 – 1989) under a Fulbright Scholarship Grant. As a French government scholar for eight years, he received his Certificate in Film at the Atelier du Formacion Au Cinema Direct in Paris, France (1981 – 1989). Later on, he received another Fulbright grant as an international Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (2001 – 2002).

Among his many scholastic distinctions are: Scholar-in-residence, University of California International Fellow, University of Iowa International Fellow, New York University Chancellor’s Most Distinguished Lecturer, and Asia Society (New York) Fellow among others.

His major works include Beyond the Mainstream: The Films of Nick Deocampo (Winner, National Book Award for Screenplay from the Manila Critics Circle, 1997), Lost Films of Asia (commissioned by the South East Asia Pacific Audio-Visual Archive Association and published by Anvil Publishing, 2006), and Cine: Spanish Influences On Early Cinema In The Philippines (Cinema Values Reorientation Program National, 2003).

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• EIGA: CINEMA IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD WAR II

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Sandy Daza is the son of the veteran gourmet chef, restaurateur, socio-civic leader, television host, and cookbook author, Chef Nora Daza. Just like his mother, Daza takes pride in his expertise in cooking. He is a chef and restaurateur specializing in Filipino and Thai cuisines. He has also written books and articles on cooking and baking.

He graduated at Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel Management. He also studied at the American College in Paris and at the Alliance Francaise and Le Cordon Bleu. While in Paris in 1973, Daza began his culinary career while working as a waiter and cashier in Aux Iles Philippines, their family restaurant.

Through the years, he has mentored chefs and established his own restaurants in Manila and Vancouver. He has hosted numerous cooking shows like Cooking with Nora, Cooking with the Dazas, Eat Bulaga’s Del Monte Kitchenomics, and Cooking with Sandy. Daza is also a food critic for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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• Cooking with Sandy Daza

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The Music Child & the Mahjong Queen explores the marvels skirting the boundaries of realism, or goes much farther beyond after establishing adequate suspension of disbelief. Genres are blurred in the crafting of long fiction that is both poetry and prophecy. This the author does with visionary whimsy.

In this narrative, the central protagonist’s wondrous voice is stilled time and again by the deaths of his loved ones. Bereft of song, the boy finally learns to speak, then learns to turn the words of others into music on paper. The processes of mimicry and extrapolation result in an extended poetic suite that invents legends as well as a mythical conflict involving the imperialism of languages.

About the Author

More popularly known as “Krip,” Alfred Yuson has authored several poetry collections, novels, essay compilations, children’s stories, short fiction collection, biographies, translation, a play in Filipino, and travel and coffee-table books. He has been a documentary filmmaker, scriptwriter, magazine and newspaper editor, and designer.

He received various literary distinctions including Rockefeller Foundation grant for residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy, the SEAWrite (South East Asian Writers) Award from Thai Royalty in Bangkok for lifetime achievement, the International Poetry Conference at the University of Hawaii, and inclusion in the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. He has also participated in various literary conferences, seminars, and festivals in Asia and Europe.

In the Philippines, Yuson received a FAMAS award and a Catholic Mass Media Award (CMMA) for Best Screenplay. In 2008, his novel The Music Child has been shortlisted in the Man Asian Literary Prize.

Yuson currently writes a literature and culture column for The Philippine Star and serves as Philippines Editor for MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, published by the University of Hawaii.

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• The Music Child & The Mahjong Queen

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The Expat Kitchen is a practical cookbook for a range of culinary expertise, from the novice to the knowledgeable cook, from the career woman/man with little time to spare for food preparation, to the skilled and consummate cook who will happily slave over a hot stove for hours preparing the perfect meal for friends and family, to the simple housewife looking to perk up the appetite of picky eaters in the family.

Above all, it reflects and offers a cosmopolitan view of Filipino food and the Filipino palate, consistent with the changing tastes and lifestyles of today’s widely-traveled and well-informed Filipino.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Blanquita David-Gallardo, otherwise known as Blanche, is a veteran journalist with more than 35 years’ experience in lifestyle publishing as a writer, editor, and publisher.

Gallardo is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the University of Santo Tomas. After college, she began her career with the now-defunct Philippines Herald as assistant to then Women’s Editor Enriqueta “Etang” David-Perez (no relation).

Anon, Gallardo, and her husband—editorial cartoonist Bert Gallardo—joined The Asia Magazine in Hong Kong as Women’s Editor and Art Director. However, they briefly went back to Manila in the mid-70s, only to return to the then British Crown Colony in 1978—with Bert to pick up where he left off as Art Director of Orientations, an art and culture publication, and the business magazine Insight. Gallardo then was the originator and an editor of two new lifestyle magazines, Eve and the Home Journal.

Subsequently, the couple initiated their own interior design publications, Dimensions and the Designers Portfolio. Afterwards, they returned to Manila in retirement in 1997.

Blanche still continues to contribute occasional freelance articles to local and overseas publications.

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• The Expat Kitchen: A Cookbook for the Global Filipino

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Zeno Antonio Denolo (known for his pen name Zero A.D.) might be a newcomer, but it doesn’t mean that he lacks the knack to pen a tongue-in-cheek yet significant narrative.

Denolo was born in Manila in 1990. He graduated at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology degree.

He joined the Cirilo F. Bautista Prize for the Novel in 2015. Out of 73 qualified submissions, his entry Uberman and other seven works from different authors were shortlisted.

Unsurprisingly, his entry has been selected for the Special Jury Prize. Denolo then received P50, 000 and a winner’s certificate in the said writing competition.

The distinguished Board of Judges of CFB Prize for the Novel which is composed of National Artist Cirilo F. Bautista (chair), Katrina Tuvera, Roland Tolentino, Dean Francis Alfar, and Joselito delos Reyes praised the superhero-themed novel for its “painful but pleasing critique of society” and “its ability to let the public read, be entertained, while pondering the follies of being a hero.”

The illustrated edition of Uberman is published and exclusively distributed by Anvil Publishing.

*Illustrations by Kim Bartolome

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• UBERMAN

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Noli Me Tangere follows the story of Crisostomo Ibarra as he tries to bring progress to his nation and its people. But instead, he was accused of being a filibuster and ends up losing not only the love of his life, Maria Clara, but also his freedom.

About the Authors

Leo Miranda and D.G. Dumaraos first adapted Dr. José P. Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere way back in 1974. It was illustrated by Ruben M. Fabian and was published by National Book Store, Inc.’s National Classic Comics. In 2005, it was again published with new illustrations.

In giving life to the illustrious novel, Miranda worked alongside D.G. Dumaraos.

Dumaraos became a novelist and comic writer in 1960s until 1970s. Some of his renowned works are Mga Impostor sa Paraiso, which was published in Terror Komiks in 1963; Tenyente Alegre, published in Redondo Komix in 1964; Swimming Sammy, published in Sixteen Magazine in the 1970s; and Fronton Queen, published in Aliwan Komiks in 1977. Dumaraos also wrote stories and screenplays for movies such as Alimpuyo which was adapted to screen in 1971.

A new edition of Noli Me Tangere—comics with all-new illustrations by Leonardo Giron was published by Anvil Publishing in 2016.

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The Bohol We Love, part of the Place and Memory Series, is an anthology of poems and essays creatively portraying fresh new perspectives of Bohol itself, its people, and its culture.

“These essays are not about Chocolate Hills and the tarsiers and the fancy beach clubs and other tourist magnets in Bohol. They are about seemingly mundane things that define a place and bind its people together childhood games, songs, religious rituals, cultural practices, superstitions and myths, magical creatures. Here you will read about triumphs that united people in pride, disasters that drew them even closer; larger-than-life heroes and everyday heroes; changes that tested their mettle and inspired new ways of seeing as well as values that have endured; cracks in the pavements that mirrored cracks in relationships. Braiding storytelling with fictional devices, the writers merge reportage with self-reflection; weave patterns out of chaos and happenstances; and create a tapestry of memories that restores the past, turning the Bohol they love into the Bohol we love as well.”

­— Susan Lara, award-winning fictionist

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marjorie Evasco is an award-winning Filipino poet. She is considered one of the earliest Filipina feminist poets. Evasco writes in two languages: English and Cebuano-Visayan and is a supporter of women’s rights, especially of women writers.

She was born in Maribojoc, Bohol on September 21, 1953 into a family of teachers who were “always talking English.” Her formative years in school were spent under the tutelage of German and Belgian nuns.

Evasco obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English degree from Divine Word College of Tagbilaran in 1973 and her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Silliman University in 1982. While completing her doctoral degree (Doctor of Philosophy in Literature) in 1998 at De La Salle University—Manila, she became a member of their faculty. She also took the position of Director of DLSU’s Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center.

Among her award-winning works are Dreamweavers: Selected Poems 1976-1986 (Editorial and Media Resources Corp., 1987) and Ochre Tones: Poems in English and Cebuano (Salimbayan Books, 1999).

Furthermore, her poems and essays received several Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, National Book Awards from the Manila Critics’ Circle, Arinday (Silliman University), Gintong Aklat (Book Development Association of the Philippines) and Philippine Free Press prizes. Her poems have also appeared in many important anthologies including Luna Caledonia and Six Women Poets. She has received various international fellowships, and she has been published extensively in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Her latest book The Bohol We Love is published by Anvil Publishing in 2016.

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• The Bohol We Love – Softbound

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Laurel Fantauzzo is a Filipina-American non-fiction writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire Philippines, Buzzfeed Buzzreads, and The Manila Review.

She was born to an Italian-American father and a Filipino mother in Southern California. She grew up and studied in an all-girls Catholic school until the age of 17, before moving to Brooklyn, New York and then studying in the University of Iowa. Back when she lived in Southern California, she would travel to Los Angeles to visit her Filipino relatives.

She completed her Master of Fine Arts in non-fiction writing as an Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa. In 2010, she earned an Astraea Lesbian Emerging Writers fellowship. The following year, she received a Fulbright research scholarship; in 2013, she was given the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. Moreover, she was a 2014 Hedgebrook resident and a 2015 Erasmus Teaching Exchange Fellow. She taught at the Ateneo De Manila University. Now, she is a writing instructor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Her non-fiction book The First Impulse (Anvil Publishing, 2016), investigates how the country’s legacy of post-colonial violence and dictatorship affect young people’s attempts at art, migration, and love. It is about the still-unsolved murder of Filipino-Canadian film critic Alexis Tioseco and his girlfriend, Slovenian film critic and magazine editor Nika Bohinc. The said book recounts the love and life of Alexis and Nika, the circumstances surrounding their murder in September 2009, the investigations, and what happened for the people related to the couple before and after the incident, aside from some commentary on the Philippine film industry.

The First Impulse, under Anvil Publishing, is now available at all National Book Store and Power Books branches nationwide.

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• The First Impulse

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