Filipino Authors

University of the Philippines Professor Walden Bello, AKBAYAN Chair Emeritus, was proclaimed today as AKBAYAN’s second representative in Congress. He will have his oath–taking on Monday and will hit the legislative ground running, with the endorsement of the impeachment complaint against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and participation in committee hearings. A recipient of the Alternative Nobel Award (Right to Livelihood Award 2003), Rep. Walden Bello is a welcome change in the House of Representatives.

Walden Bello, senior analyst of Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines, is one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalisation, combining the roles of intellectual and activist. As a human rights and peace campaigner, academic, environmentalist and journalist, and through a combination of courage as a dissident, with an extraordinary breadth of published output and personal charisma, he has made a major contribution to the international case against corporate–driven globalisation.(www.wikipedia.com)

Rogelio Lunasco Ordoñez (born September 24, 1940) is a Filipino writer known in the Philippines for being one of the authors of the iconic Tagalog literature anthology "Mga Agos sa Disyerto" in the 1960s. A former writer in the reputable but now-defunct Liwayway Magazine,PILIPINO FREE PRESS, ASIA-PHILIPPINES LEADER, PILOSOPONG TASYO, and DIARIO UNO, he has written fictions and non-fiction articles that won distinction from different literary organizations.

In the course of his writing career that has spanned for four decades, he became a member and former head of the Cavite Press Club, Philippine Writers Academy, Pambansang Unyon ng Manunulat (PANULAT), and the Pambansang Linangan at Ugnayan ng mga Manunulat (PLUMA), Ordoñez has worked as secretary-general of the PUP Creative Writing Center, professorial lecturer, and columnist. Ordoñez has garnered top prizes from Liwayway itself, the José Rizal Centennial Commission in 1961, the Kadipan (an inter-university association of Tagalog writers and instructors), the Balagtas Memorial Awards for Journalism (held in honor of the poet-hero Francisco Balagtas). He was bestowed by UMPIL (Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas) the National Achievement Award for Literature (GAWAD PAMBANSANG ALAGAD NI BALAGTAS). He was also the recipient, in 2009, of the GAWAD HEN. EMILIO AGUINALDO ( Natatanging Parangal sa Rebolusyonaryong Caviteño) as the Progresibong Caviteño in the field of Literature. On the 234th founding anniversary of the town of Imus, Cavite (Oct. 7, 2009), he was bestowed the GAWAD HEN. JUAN S. CASTAÑEDA as an outstanding Imuseño also in the field of Literature. He has authored numerous fiction, articles and criticisms in ASIA-PHILIPPINES LEADER and Pilipino FREE PRESS, both of which he worked for as staff member.
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Edgardo M. Reyes is a Filipino male novelist. His literature first appeared in the Tagalog magazine, Liwayway. His novels include Laro sa Baga^[1], and Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag^[2]. He is also the one of the authors of the critically-acclaimed anthology of Tagalog Short Stories, the ""Mga Agos sa Disyerto."

Apart from being a book author, Edgardo M. Reyes is also a screenwriter whose film credits include Sa Kagubatan ng Lungsod (The Jungle in the City) (1975), Hoy Mister Ako ang Misis Mo (Hey Mister I Am Your Wife) (1976) and Uod at Rosas (Of Worms and Roses) (1982). The plot descriptions of these films had been cited and reviewed by the New York Times newspaper.^[3]

Edgardo M. Reyes's Laro sa Baga (Playing with Fire) has also been made into a movie in 2000. The said cinematography version has been a feature film, with English subtitles, during the 2005 New York Filipino Film Festival from June 10 to June 16, 2005 and was screened at the ImaginAsian Cinema, 239 East 59 Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues). Laro sa Baga is an erotic romantic odyssey: an intense drama of a young couple who fell in love while exploring the politics of sexual awakening and social relations.^[6] A racy movie with full-frontal male nudity, the film examines how innocence can easily turn into deceit, and how tender passions can unexpectedly explode into violence. Several subplots in the novel were compromised for the screenplay such as the exclusion of characters Victoria Gonzaga and her daughter of unclarified origin, Teng. Other subplots were intertwined to cut the main plotline short. It was directed by the Filipino director, Chito Roño, with a cast of actors that include Carlos Morales and Ara Mina. It won best picture during the Urian 2000.^{[7]
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