Now on its 63rd year, the country’s premier and longest-running literary contest, the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is again opening its doors to both amateur and seasoned writers who wish to showcase their talent.
The selection process was described as “brutal,” “dramatic and strict,” but in the end, 64 young authors made it to the pages of the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s fourth and latest volume of “Young Blood.”
To speak from the soul you would have to speak with the pronoun I. Philosopher Rene Descartes wrote, “Cogito ergo sum.” I think therefore I am. Emmanuel Kant presumes I is where the soul resides. Much has been written about the soul. Soul is an idea which goes by many names: spirit, psyche, anima, the [...]
Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan was assailed Saturday in the Chinese dissident community as a “prostitute” following his Nobel lecture, but the speech was acclaimed in the communist state’s media.
The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism. At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book.
The Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation Inc. has launched a book of personal essays titled “Kusang-loob: Celebrating Thirty Years of the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines.”
Rain is the great equalizer. When it falls it falls on everyone rich or poor. And all derive from it an equal share of consequence, good or bad. Or this, according to the farmer from Oslob. The young writer thought the same thing although he thought this with an entirely different set of words. Once [...]
Short of a distinctive definition of Bicol literature, writers attending the fourth quadrennial Bicol writers’ conference “Pagsurat Bikol” on April 29-30 at Ateneo de Naga University take comfort in the fact that Bicol is in their hearts and minds when they weave pieces of literary work.
THIS year’s Taboan writers festival satellite for Central Visayas will be held on Feb. 24 at the Holy Name University (HNU) in Tagbilaran City, Bohol.
There is a span of time between the moment the mind wills the body awake and the eyes actually open. It can stretch from an instance to something which seems like eternity. She did not know how long it would take. She knew only that it was taking longer than usual. Her mind told her [...]
A mysterious nocturnal visitor who used to visit the grave of American poet Edgar Allan Poe on his birthday and lay a rose in his memory failed to appear for the third consecutive year, US media said.
A coming-of-age novel set in Cebu City in 1975 will be launched on Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. at the Casino Español de Cebu.
A PROMINENT Cebuano literature icon’s book on birds earned him another award to add to his collection over the weekend.
