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Ustetika 2011 falls short of first-placers

By ANA MAY R. DELA CRUZ and JAN DOMINIC G. LEONES

POLITICAL Science junior John Carlo Pacala won this year’s Rector’s Literary Award (RLA) for his Katha entry, “Liham,” during the 27th Gawad Ustetika last Dec. 3 at the Quadricentennial Park.

Pacala won the RLA in the face of a rather depleted arena of competition as there were no first-place winners in five out of eight categories. So depleted was the field that there was no winner declared in the Fiction category, not even an honorable mention.

Earlier, Pacala was proclaimed Tomasinong Kuwentista ng Taon for “Liham,” about the personal letters of a correctional prisoner to her mother. read more »

PEN Congress tackles Literature's survival

By ANA MAY R. DELA CRUZ AND JAN DOMINIC G. LEONES

FILIPINO writers gathered for the 54th national congress of the the Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets and Playwrights, Essayists and Novelists) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines onDecember 1 and 2 vowed to work for a “literature of survival” to combat climate change and environmental destruction.

With the theme “Archipelagic Feasts, Tropical Disasters: The Literature of Survival,” the PEN led by National Artists F. Sionil Jose (PEN founder) and Bienvenido Lumbera (PEN chairman), who are both Thomasians, discussed issues revolving around natural calamities, environmental degradation, and social, economic, political, and cultural disasters that plague the nation,. read more »

Un-granted wishes

IT TAKES a lot of patience for a child to wait until the time to open presents on Christmas Eve. Parents tuck them in bed and tell them to wait till the morning, but they always manage to scurry out of bed minutes before the clock strikes 12. They can’t wait to see their presents. read more »

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