Classmates of the late Lorenzo Mendoza de Vera at the Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao campus (Batch 2013) gather in Casa Munda, Davao City at the launching of his book, “The Start of the New” on 04 March 2025. MindaNews photo by CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews / 13 October) — GenSan-based publisher Aklat Alamid announced on their Facebook page that “Gusto Maglupad ni Bangsi” (Bangsi wants to fly), written by Xaña Angel Eve Apolinar and illustrated by Dom Ochotorena, is included in this
Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and Memory, 2nd editionAuthor: Macario D. TiuResearch and Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University, 2021, 571 pages Postcolonial feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman’s revelatory essay titled “Venus in Two Acts” (2008) probes the politics and limits
BOOK REVIEW: San Rafael by Leila Rispens-Noel8 Letters Bookstore & Publishing, 2023 One sweltering afternoon, Isabel headed for the lagoon. She walked through a rocky narrow track with dense cogon and other grasses on either side. Ice-cold water cascaded down
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 10 December) – Six Mindanao books are among 35 winners in the 41st National Book Awards. The Best Anthology in English is “Kalandrakas Part 1, 1890-1945: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990” and “Kalandrakas Part
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 13 November) – Nine Mindanao books are finalists in ten categories in the 41st National Book Awards. The annual prize, initiated by the National Book Development Board (NDBD) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC), honors the most
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 August) – Two Mindanawon writers are among 21 finalists in the 17th Cardinal Sin Catholic Book Awards: Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar of Davao and children’s book writer Mary Ann Ordinario of Kidapawan City. Gaspar’s “Diwang Balaan/Banal:
SARANGANI (MindaNews / 27 August) – Members of the Sarangani Writers League (SWL) showcased their work and promoted the thriving literary scene here at the Philippine Book Festival in Davao City last week. Held from August 18–20, 2023, at the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 August) – The Philippine Book Festival on August 18 to 20 at the SMX Convention Center in Lanang opens at 8 a.m. on Friday with what organizers describe as a “mesmerizing Lalang-Banwa ritual,” where Maguindanaon
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 3 June) – “Transfiguring Mindanao: A Mindanao Reader” is this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Book Award from the National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST PHL). Edited by Mindanawon professors Jose Jowel Canuday and
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 21 May) – Experience Mindanao’s architectural diversity through a coloring book. Balay Kulayan Coloring Book is a 70-page interactive book that brings to life the dwellings of five different Mindanao Ethnolinguistic groups and offers the perfect
(Dr. Jose Jowel Canuday’s opening remarks at the launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s book, “The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903” at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City on 04 May 2023. Canuday, who hails from
(Delivered online by Dr. Steven Rood at the book launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s ‘The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern Philippines’ at the Ateneo de Manila University
Amor B. Pendaliday, Ed.D.[1] The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History, 1515-1903:Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern PhilippinesAteneo de Manila University Press, 2023 COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 16 April) — On the first week of November,
(Video message of Maria Karina Africa Bolasco, Director of the Ateneo de Manila University Press during the launch of Datu Michael Ong Mastura’s book, The Rulers of Magindanao in Modern History 1515-1903: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Realm in the Southern
(Remarks at the Davao City launch of the two-volume book, Kalandrakas: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990 (A Preliminary and Continuing Survey and Literary Mapping) by Karina Africa Bolasco, Director of the Ateneo de Manila University Press. Bolasco
Kalandrakas: Stories and Storytellers of/on Regions in Mindanao, 1890-1990, A Preliminary and Continuing Survey and Literary Mapping by Ricardo M. de Ungria. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2022. In one of the appendices (Appendix E) of Ricardo M. de
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 25 February) – The two-volume book on a century of Mindanao literature — from 1890 to 1990 — will be launched at the Ateneo de Davao University on Monday, February 27. Edited by the multi-awarded writer Ricardo
By Ma. Isabel Actub BOOK REVIEWStewards of Excellence in Catholic Education: The History of the Davao Association of Catholic Schools (1963-2023)Author – Bro. Karl M. Gaspar CSsRPublisher – Davao Association of Catholic Schools, Davao City, 2023 A Book on the
A Heart That Does Not Cease to Dream – A Missionary’s “Jagged” Life JourneyAuthor: Fr. Ramon O. Fruto, CSsRPublisher: Claretian Publications Foundation, Inc., 2023 By Fr. Antonio Ma. Rosales, OFM (N.B. Fr. Ramon Fruto, CSsR, is the first Redemptorist Filipino
Title of the Book: AND SHE SANG… YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE!Author: Melchor M. MorantePublished by: Alitheia Publications, Davao City, 2022 Life stories are often the stuff that remarkable novels are made of. It only takes the keen sense of a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 January) – At least 50 Mindanao books –books written by Mindanawons on various topics and books on Mindanao written by Mindanawons and non-Mindanawons — were published in 2022, 19 more than the 2021 harvest. History and peacebuilding,
(Can’t Go Out and Other Stories)Author: Ms. Elizabeth Joy Serrano-QuijanoPublished by: Ateneo Publication Office, Ateneo de Davao University Once upon a time – actually only about half-a-century ago – when we were kids growing up in Digos which was then
DIWANG BALAAN/BANAL: A Decolonial Discourse on Pinoy SpiritualityKarl M. Gaspar, CSsRInstitute of Spirituality in Asia, 2022 MANILA (MindaNews / 08 January) — More than ever, this book is relevant to contemporary times, where environmental concerns are faced by both the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 December) – Blaan write Elizabeth Joy Serrano-Quijano’s book, “Dili Pwede Mogawas ug Ubang mga Sugilanon” (Can’t Go Out and Other Stories), was launched Saturday at the Ateneo de Davao University. The title of the book
MATALAM, North Cotabato (MindaNews / 5 Oct) – In my more than three decades of writing (reckoned from the time I was chosen Editor of the university school paper in 1981-1984), not once did it occur to me that I
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 August) – “Ang bayan na hindi alam ang kasyasayan walang patutunguhan. Ang nasud nga wala nasayod sa iyang kasaysayan walay padulngan. A nation that does not know its history has nowhere to go,” Dr. Macario Tiu,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 August) – Three books on Mindanao are among 27 winners in the 39th National Book Awards given out by the National Book Development Board (NDBD) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC). The NBA is an annual
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 July) – After it became certain that he won the Presidential race in the May 9, 2016 polls, Rodrigo Roa Duterte visited the grave of his parents at the public cemetery here and disappeared from public
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 June) – The 2nd Mindanao Book Festival opens here on June 13 with a collective launch of Mindanao books published from 2020 to 2022, in the time of COVID-19. Like the first book fest in 2014,
TITLE: Mga Lumadnong Sugilanon nga Mahinuklogon AUTHOR: Melchor M. Morante Published by Aletheia Printing and Publishing House, Davao City Virtual book launch on 30 December 2020 at 4 p.m. KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews / 16 December) — A genre of its
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 November) – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte may or may not be a Roa, but certainly, he has no Meranaw roots. That he may or may not be a Roa is explicitly stated in the book,
JAKARTA (MindaNews / 25 September) – Twenty-three years after the Final Peace Agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front was signed, negotiators and facilitators gathered at the ASEAN Hall here on Monday to remember and reflect
I wrote Kakistocracy: Rule of the Unprincipled, Unethical and Unqualified because of my interest in leadership integrity issues. I was then very much involved in anticorruption movement in the Philippines while working in the academia on the side. Kakistocracy became
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 September) – Ronnie V. Amorado’s book on “principled leadership” was launched Saturday at the University of Mindanao, a sequel to his book on the “unprincipled, unethical and unqualified” leaders. Peripatetic: Practical Lessons on Leadership is
(Bert Cacayan’s foreword to the book, “Seeking New Meanings and New Expressions”, the Missionaries of the Assumption Story, launched on 15 August 2019 at the Assumption College of Davao). An incredible and beautiful journey, it is. The story of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 December) – Perhaps some of us may have the luxury of finding time during the Christmas holidays to just take things easy. Life can be so hectic for most of the year – as we try our best to survive health issues, stress in the workplace, traffic, frustrations with politics, slow internet connections and so many other concerns – that one finds it difficult to find the time to just relax and do what the heart desires.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 Nov) – The biggest book sale in the world will be in Davao City soon. The founder of the Big Bad Wolf, the firm behind the ten-day, 24/7 book fair here on November 23 to
In this world of gadgets and tablets, this boy finds a way to indulge his passion for reading at the books section in a mall in Digos City, Davao del Sur. MindaNews by ERIC S.B. LIBRE
Title of the book: Scissors, Papers, Water, Stones Author: Maria Frencie Carreon Publication: 2017, by Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines Pages: Intro ductory (xviii); body (115) Printing: Softbound, with colored pictures inside The book is a set of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 July) — Joan Mae Soco-Bantayan thought of writing a book two years ago but buckling down to work was another story. “I had ideas but I needed clarity,” says the 33-year old mother of two,
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Is reading a book these days – which I have always thought was a rare precious gift – an endangered species in our day and post-modern age? There are days – especially when
