Six Saturdays of Beyblade and Other Essays
$27.36
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2023
Summary
A collection of personal essays about growing up and becoming a father from the landscapes of the Philippine countrysides to the fringes and streetways of Manila.
- Quinabuangan and the glorious marching band.
- Cembo, Makati and the burning Ship.
- Baclaran, Manila at night, for the lost and homeless.
In these ten personal essays, a father confesses in gripping narratives his coming of age without a father, of working at an early age, of finding love …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789815058994 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9815058991 |
| Author: | FERDINAND PISIGAN JARIN |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House SEA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 136mm x 215mm |
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FERDINAND PISIGAN JARIN
Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin (Author)
Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin is one of the Philippines’ foremost authors and creative non-fictionists. He is the author of Six Saturdays of Beyblade and other Essays (originally Anim na Sabado ng Beyblade at Iba Pang Sanaysay), which won a National Book Award for Best Book of Nonfiction in Filipino in 2014 from the Manila Critics Circle and National Book Development Board and was a finalist for Madrigal-Gonzales First Best Book Award administered by the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing (UP ICW). The book, since its first edition up to the present, is a consistent bestseller for creative nonfiction in Filipino. Its main story, Six Saturdays of Beyblade is one of the mandatory readings for the Philippines’ secondary students studying Philippine and Asian Literature. Jarin is a three-time Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awardee for Literature, the Philippines’ most prestigious literary award-giving body. Jarin teaches Filipino Language and Creative Writing at the Division of Humanities of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas.
John Toledo (Translator)
John Toledo is an emerging author, translator, and creative nonfictionist from the Philippines. He translated to English the Filipino original of Six Saturdays of Beyblade. He currently writes criticism and essays about Philippine literature and pop culture in both Filipino and English. A graduate of the Filipino creative writing program at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Toledo teaches Filipino language, Philippine and World Literature and Creative Writing in various universities in the Philippines. Six Saturdays of Beyblade is his first book of translation.
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