REGION VI

 

 

REGION VI

 

 

 

 

 

1.Mark Anthony A. Grejaldo

 

Mark Anthony A. Grejaldo was born August 11, 1980 in Iloilo City. He is a graduate of Mass Communications from the West Visayas State University. He started writing poetry in 1998. In 1999, he became a fellow for Poetry in the Iligan National Writers' Workshop and the U.P. National Writers' Workshop in Davao City. "Lihim ng mga Alitaptap" (his first attempt in writing a screenplay) was a finalist in the 3rd Star Cinema Screenwriting Contest.

 

2. Ricardo Demetillo

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Ricaredo Demetillo was born on June 20, 1920 in Dumangas, Iloilo. He was a poet, essayist and critic who graduated cum laude in AB English, 1947 in the University of the Philippines; School of Letters, Bloomington, Indiana; MFA in English and Creative Writing in State University of Iowa in 1952. He married Angelita Demetillo.             Some of his publications include:   No Certain Weather (1956, poetry)  La Via (1959, poetry)   Golden Jubilee Ode Libretto (1959)  Barter in Panay (1961, 1984)  Daedalus and Other Poems (1961) The Authentic Voice of Poetry (1962) Masks and Signatures (1968)  The Heart of Emptiness is Black (1973) Lazarus Troubador (1974) The City and the Thread of Light He was a scholar of SU in Presbyterian and International in 1949; fellow of Rockefeller Foundation in 1952; Pro Patria Awardee in 1961; Republic Cultural Heritage Awardee in 1968; UP Golden Jubilee for Poetry, Art Association, and Palanca Awardee in 1972, 1973 and 1974; Rizal Centennial Awardee; and Gawad Balagtas in 1991.       3. Ernesto Superial Yee Ernesto Superal Yee 3.Ernesto Superal Yee was born on 29 October 1953 in Tanjay, Negros Oriental. He finished his BBA (major in management) and LLB at SU, and passed the bar in 1983. He was a fellow in the Silliman Writers Workshop, 1977 and currently is Clerk of Court V at the Regional Trial Court, Branch 32, Dumaguete Cit. He is also a part-time professor of Civil Law and Remedial Law at the College of Law, SU. He plays the piano and also writes fiction.

 

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