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                    [Title] => The Manila Critics Circle
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Next week, the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board (NBDB) will give the 34th National Book Awards at appropriate ceremonies in the National Museum.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-25 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134791 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1365384 [AuthorName] => Isagani Cruz [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1503396 [Title] => The Essence and Soul of a Culture [Summary] =>

 "Without language, the finest invention of the human imagination, there is no memory, no history, no culture, no civilization," said revered poet and literary luminary Dr. Gémino H. Abad, as he addressed a gathering of writers and the 'culturati' during the awards night of the 65th Carlos Palanca Awards, the most prestigious literary contest in the Philippines.

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It’s that time of year when our writer-friends reap awards, for individual works or lifetime achievement.

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Reading is a way of broadcasting the kind of person you want to be perceived as. Something especially significant when you’re making the rounds in that unforgiving, highly selective sport called dating.

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We were back in Bangkok very recently, about the same time as last year, for another gathering of the newish Asia-Pacific Writers and Translators Association (APWriters).

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Nicole Kidman will star in and produce an adaptation of “The Silent Wife,” the summer literary breakout novel by A.S.A Harrison. Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan have teamed with Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films to option the psychological thriller and produce.

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You cannot get more scientific than the journal entitled “Science,” the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134791 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1365384 [AuthorName] => Isagani Cruz [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1239162 [Title] => Found in translation [Summary] =>

I hadn’t been back to Indonesia in 30 years — the last time being in 1983, when Manong Frankie Sionil Jose brought five fellow Filipino writers to an idyllic lakeshore in Bali to meet with other Asian writers — but last week, I flew in to Jakarta again, thanks to the Inisiatif Penerjamahan Sastra, the Initiative for the Improvement and Promotion of Literary Translation in Indonesia.

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I’ll begin with a sheepish apology (and a word of thanks) this week, for a stupid mistake I made in my piece about hats a couple of weeks ago.

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At the recent Taboan Philippine Writers Festival held in Dumaguete last month, I sat on a panel devoted to the topic of “Literary Networking,” which deals with how writers come into contact with one another and with other people in the profession  publishers, editors, agents, and, of course, readers, teachers, and critics  to improve and to promote their writing.

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