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NBDB now accepting nominations to the 2nd National Children's Book Award |
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On July 2012, the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Philippine Board on Books for the Young (PBBY) will present the 2nd National Children’s Book Award, giving honor to the 10 best books for children and young adults published during the years 2010 and 2011.
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Two Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writers Topbill 2nd Manila International Literary Festival |
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Organized by the National Book Development Board (NBDB) in celebration of Philippine
Book Development Month, the 2nd Manila International Literary Festival
featured two
Pulitzer Prize winners, namely; Edward Jones (The Known World, 2004) and Junot Diaz (The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao, 2008). Aside from the two writers, the Literary
Festival also attracted several noted international publishers like Ravi Mirchadandani of
Atlantic Books-UK, Rachel Kahan of G.P. Putnam & Sons-New York, Priya Doraswamy and
Jayapriya Vasudevan of Jacaranda Press-India, and fictional writer teacher Holly Thomson
of Yokohama City University.
The three-day LitFest, themed “The Great Philippine Book Café,” featured more than 30
literary workshops conducted by over 70 speakers with topics ranging from “How to Get the
Young to Read” to “How to be a Bestseller” to “In Search of the Next Great Philippine
Novel.” This year’s Lit Fest was held at the Ayala Museum from November 16 to 18.
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UST Publishing House Bags “Publisher of the Year” Award at the 30th National Book Awards |
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The University of Santo Tomas (UST) Publishing House was named “Publisher of the Year” during the recent 30th National Book Awards held last 12 November 2011 at the National Museum. Charlson Ong’s “Blue Angel, White Shadow: A Novel” (UST Publishing House) bagged the National Book Award for Fiction while “Sagad sa Buto: Hospital Diary at Iba Pang Sanaysay” (UST Publishing House) by Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr. won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction Prose.
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Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz is new NBDB Chair |
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The Board of Governors unanimously elected Flor Marie “Neni” Sta. Romana-Cruz as the new Chair of the NBDB during their 194th Regular Board Meeting last 28 October 2011. Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz replaced Dr. Dennis Gonzalez, who chaired the Book Board for ten (10) years beginning from November 2001 up to September 2011.
Neni Sta. Romana-Cruz is an award-winning writer, an accomplished educator, a noted children’s book critic, a reading advocate and freelance journalist. Prior to her appointment to the NBDB, Chairperson Romana-Cruz chaired the Philippine Board on Books for Young People (PBBY) and was likewise a board member of the “Sa Aklat Sisikat” Foundation, an organization which promotes book reading and lifelong learning. Some of the award-winning books she authored were the following: “Why the Piña has a Hundred Eyes and Other Classic Philippine Folk Tales About Fruits” which won the 1993 National Book Award for Children’s Literature and a biography of Gabriela Silang which received a National Book Award citation for excellence in 1992. Her more recent works are the highly successful companion gift books “You Know You’re Filipino If….,” “Don’t Take a Bath on a Friday: Philippine Superstitions and Folk Beliefs,” and “Ngalang Pinoy: A Primer on Filipino Wordplay,” all published by Tahanan Books.
Chairperson Sta. Romana-Cruz graduated cum laude from St. Scholastica’s College and holds a master’s degree in English Literature from the Ateneo de Manila University. She has also taken courses in children’s literature from Michigan State University. Neni taught writing to talented elementary school students at International School-Manila, where she headed the Children’s Media Center.
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NBDB Chair Bats for a Decentralized Textbook Evaluation Process |
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In a speech before book development stakeholders during the recently concluded Manila International Book Fair, NBDB Chairman Dennis T. Gonzalez reiterated his proposal for the Department of Education to decentralize the evaluation of textbooks for DepEd procurement, in order to raise the effectiveness of the evaluation process and minimize the entry of substandard books in public schools.
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