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National Book Awards (Philippines)
The Philippine National Book Awards, or simply the National Book Awards, is a Philippine literary award sponsored by and the Manila Critics' Circle (MCC) and the National Book Development Board (NBDB).
Every year since 1982, the Manila Critics Circle has been giving the National Book Awards to the best books written, designed, and published in the Philippines. Early in 2008, the Manila Critics Circle entered into an agreement with the National Book Development Board (Philippines) to institutionalize and co-administer the National Book Awards to better honor Philippine publishers, authors, and book designers.
The NBDB’s participation in the conduct of the National Book Awards is in line with its mandate to support local authorship and promote the development of quality books, in accordance with RA 8047 or the Book Publishing Industry Development Act. Both the NBDB and the MCC envision to give a yearly tribute and will continue to recognize the creative works of talented authors and publishers to produce quality books for many years to come.
The Manila Critics Circle was founded in 1981 when Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Alfredo Navarro Salanga, Alfred A. Yuson, and Isagani R. Cruz realized that Philippine books were not getting the attention they deserved. What to Cruz “seemed like a quixotic venture at that time” was featured in the Asiaweek Literary Review.
That magazine article carried this lede: “Considering the Philippines’ relatively high literacy rate, it is ironic that reading is not a favourite pastime among Filipinos. A quartet of dedicated Manila littérateurs believes it’s high time something was done to dispel this literary lassitude.”
Over the last four decades, this intrepid group of critics grew to include Leonides V. Benesa, Arlene Babst-Vokey, National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario, Alice Guillermo, Doreen G. Fernandez, National Artist for Literature Resil B. Mojares, Roger Bresnahan, Miguel A. Bernad, SJ, Juaniyo Arcellana, National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, Soledad S. Reyes, Joel Pablo Salud, Danton Remoto, and Ruel de Vera.
The present set of MCC members are Shirley O. Lua, Dean Francis Alfar, Alma Anonas-Carpio, Michael Coroza, and Tony La Viña. Jenny Ortuoste, who passed on last July 21, 2024, continued to participate in the 42nd cycle of nominee selection for the National Book Awards until her health no longer allowed her to join the meetings and deliberations.
The National Book Awards has had several sponsors who helped defray the huge expenses holding such awards has entailed: several corporations, agencies, and schools such as Artlab, the Ateneo de Manila University, Ayala Museum, Benguet Corp., Betty’s Sans-Rival & Catering Service, Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils., the Cultural Center of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Equitable Philippine Commercial International Bank, Far Eastern University, Filipinas Foundation, Filipino Bookstore, Fortune Tobacco Corporation, Ganesh Art Center, Heritage Art Gallery, Jollibee Foods Corporation, La Tondeña, Land Bank of the Philippines, Magnolia Corporation, Manila Electric Company, Mobil Philippines, Nestlé Philippines, Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, Philippine Studies Association, Primetrade Asia, San Miguel Corporation, SGV & Company, University of Santo Tomas, and the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, now known as the UP Likhaan center.
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National Book Awards (Philippines)
The Philippine National Book Awards, or simply the National Book Awards, is a Philippine literary award sponsored by and the Manila Critics' Circle (MCC) and the National Book Development Board (NBDB).
Every year since 1982, the Manila Critics Circle has been giving the National Book Awards to the best books written, designed, and published in the Philippines. Early in 2008, the Manila Critics Circle entered into an agreement with the National Book Development Board (Philippines) to institutionalize and co-administer the National Book Awards to better honor Philippine publishers, authors, and book designers.
The NBDB’s participation in the conduct of the National Book Awards is in line with its mandate to support local authorship and promote the development of quality books, in accordance with RA 8047 or the Book Publishing Industry Development Act. Both the NBDB and the MCC envision to give a yearly tribute and will continue to recognize the creative works of talented authors and publishers to produce quality books for many years to come.
The Manila Critics Circle was founded in 1981 when Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, Alfredo Navarro Salanga, Alfred A. Yuson, and Isagani R. Cruz realized that Philippine books were not getting the attention they deserved. What to Cruz “seemed like a quixotic venture at that time” was featured in the Asiaweek Literary Review.
That magazine article carried this lede: “Considering the Philippines’ relatively high literacy rate, it is ironic that reading is not a favourite pastime among Filipinos. A quartet of dedicated Manila littérateurs believes it’s high time something was done to dispel this literary lassitude.”
Over the last four decades, this intrepid group of critics grew to include Leonides V. Benesa, Arlene Babst-Vokey, National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario, Alice Guillermo, Doreen G. Fernandez, National Artist for Literature Resil B. Mojares, Roger Bresnahan, Miguel A. Bernad, SJ, Juaniyo Arcellana, National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista, Soledad S. Reyes, Joel Pablo Salud, Danton Remoto, and Ruel de Vera.
The present set of MCC members are Shirley O. Lua, Dean Francis Alfar, Alma Anonas-Carpio, Michael Coroza, and Tony La Viña. Jenny Ortuoste, who passed on last July 21, 2024, continued to participate in the 42nd cycle of nominee selection for the National Book Awards until her health no longer allowed her to join the meetings and deliberations.
The National Book Awards has had several sponsors who helped defray the huge expenses holding such awards has entailed: several corporations, agencies, and schools such as Artlab, the Ateneo de Manila University, Ayala Museum, Benguet Corp., Betty’s Sans-Rival & Catering Service, Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils., the Cultural Center of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Equitable Philippine Commercial International Bank, Far Eastern University, Filipinas Foundation, Filipino Bookstore, Fortune Tobacco Corporation, Ganesh Art Center, Heritage Art Gallery, Jollibee Foods Corporation, La Tondeña, Land Bank of the Philippines, Magnolia Corporation, Manila Electric Company, Mobil Philippines, Nestlé Philippines, Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, Philippine Studies Association, Primetrade Asia, San Miguel Corporation, SGV & Company, University of Santo Tomas, and the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, now known as the UP Likhaan center.