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Lilia Ramos-de Leon is a short story writer whose works have appeared in the Free Press, Graphic, Chronicle Magazine, and The Nation among others. Under martial law, she practiced "camouflage writing," and wrote a historical column in Panorama. She earned her Master of Arts in English from the State University of Northern Virginia and was an attaché to the Philippine Embassy in Madrid. At present, she alternates writing short stories with painting.

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Lilia Ramos-de Leon is a short story writer whose works have appeared in the Free Press, Graphic, Chronicle Magazine, and The Nation among others. Under martial law, she practiced "camouflage writing," and wrote a historical column in Panorama. She earned her Master of Arts in English from the State University of Northern Virginia and was an attaché to the Philippine Embassy in Madrid. At present, she alternates writing short stories with painting.

[DatePublished] => 2005-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1462006 [AuthorName] => Lilia Ramos-De Leon [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287998 [Title] => ‘Po-on’: A Filipino’s memory, mirror and window [Summary] => Literature records and embodies centuries of human thought and feeling, preserving for us the minds of people who lived before us, who were like us and unlike us, against whom we can measure our common humanity and historical difference. When we read great literature, something changes in us that stays changed. – Donald Hall, American poet
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1125638 [AuthorName] => Angelo B. Ancheta [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 214318 [Title] => BEING FILIPINO IN ‘PO-ON’ [Summary] => Istak. Dalin. Padre Jose. How can I ever forget the names of those people whose world I visited as I read F. Sionil Jose’s Po-on? That world, as I discovered, is no different from my own. Even though what Po-on brings to life are the plowing of the fields, the tolling of the bells, and the firing of the guns; and in our world today what we do is send text messages, watch TV, and play computer games, there is one thing that makes Po-on strikingly familiar – it’s the people in it, Filipinos.
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