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In a translation considered as flawed by critics and scholars, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands was a very quotable book, abounding in su...

"An American reader must learn Portuguese, too, if he is to experience fully Rosa's poetic power and wit", said Barbara Shel...

I once made a list of Philippine novels that have been translated into English in 2014 (see this post ). I have updated this list. The comp...

"Where are Asia's Nobel Prize-winners?", asked the Filipino novelist N.V.M. Gonzalez in 1985. A prelude to his thoughts on ...

I managed to read 25 books this year, which is a slight improvement from the previous. Not surprisingly, I tended to focus on Filipiniana b...