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Bernalyn Hapin Sastrillo

Si Bernalyn Hapin Sastrillo ay isang manunulat, mandudula, at minsa’y nakagawa na rin siya ng maiikling pelikula. Naging writing fellow siya sa IYAS National Writer’s Workshop (2015), Virgin Labfest Writing Fellowship (2014), at Kabanata Young Adult Writers’ Workshop (2014).

Ang Detective Boys of Masangkay: Ang Mangkukulam ay ang una niyang nobela. Ito’y nabuo mula sa pira-pirasong alaala niya bilang batang '90s, na hinubog upang maging ganap na akda sa tulong ng Kabanata Workshop.

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Norma Olizon-Chikiamco

Norma Olizon-Chikiamco is an award-winning Filipino author, journalist, and food writer. She is known for her children's books, including the Palanca Award-winning Pan de Sal Saves the Day, as well as numerous cookbooks.

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Melissa Salva

Melissa Salva writes contemporary fiction, children's books, and poetry. Her works have appeared in national publications as well as literary anthologies published in the Philippines and abroad.

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Mary Ann Ordinario-Floresta

Mary Ann Ordinario is the founder/Directress of ABC Educational Development Center in Kidapawan City. She graduated from Philippine Women's University with a degree of Bachelor of Arts major in Mass Communications. She furthered her studies by taking up her training on Early Childhood Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City.
May Ann was also a former broadcaster, scriptwriter, and Research Head of DXND- Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation in Central Mindanao. She is the author of 25 children's books. Her book The Crying Trees swept the 2016 Grand Prize inhe Samsung KidsTime Award in Singapore, with four of her books winning the second prize.

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood. These included fry cook, sex worker, nightclub performer, Porgy and Bess cast member, Southern Christian Leadership

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Virginia Woolf

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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Bernard Evslin

Bernard Evslin was an author best known for his adaptations of Greek mythology. With over seventy titles, which include both novel-length retellings and short stories, Evslin is one of the most widely published authors of classical mythology in the world. His best-known work is Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide and has been translated into ten different languages. An estimated 30 million students have come into contact with Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths due to its repeated use in high school and college classrooms over the years. This bestselling anthology includes such well-known stories as "Theseus and the Minotaur" and "Perseus and Medusa." He also published

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Jenny Colgan

Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including 'The Little Shop of Happy Ever After' and 'Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery', which are also published by Sphere.' Meet Me at the Cupcake Café' won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was 'Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams', which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013.

For more about Jenny, visit her website and her Facebook page, or follow her on Twitter.

Jenny Colgan has also been published under the name Jenny T. Colgan.

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Dr. Seuss

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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born 2 March 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature. At Oxford he met Helen Palmer, who he wed in 1927. He returned from Europe in 1927, and began working for a magazine called Judge, the leading humor magazine in America at the time, submitting both cartoons and humorous articles for them. Additionally, he was submitting cartoons to Life, Vanity Fair and Liberty. In some of his works, he'd made reference to an insecticide called Flit. These references gained notice, and led to a contract to draw comic ads fo

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Carlos Bulosan

Carlos Sampayan Bulosan was a Filipino American novelist and poet best-known for the semi-autobiographical America is in the Heart.

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Oliver Jeffers

Oliver Jeffers' work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and HarperCollins UK and Penguin USA publish his award-winning picture books, now translated into over 30 languages.

In 2007, Jeffers was the official illustrator for World Book Day, and in 2008 Lost and Found became Oliver's first book to made into animation by London-based Studio AKA.

Jeffers won a NY Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with the artist and director Mac Premo, and in 2013 Jeffers co-directed the video for U2's Ordinary Love with Premo. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jeffers now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Norma Olizon-Chikiamco

Norma Olizon-Chikiamco is an award-winning Filipino author, journalist, and food writer. She is known for her children's books, including the Palanca Award-winning Pan de Sal Saves the Day, as well as numerous cookbooks.

Chikiamco has written for various publications in the Philippines and received an Outstanding Journalism Award from the Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce.

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Ricky Lee

Filipino screenwriter, journalist, novelist, and playwright.

He has written more than 150 film screenplays since 1973, earning him more than 50 trophies from various award-giving bodies, including a 2003 Natatanging Gawad Urian Lifetime Achievement Award from the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Filipino Film Critics). As a screenwriter, he has worked with many Filipino film directors, most notably with Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal. Many of his films have been screened in the international film festival circuit in Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, among others.

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Mother Teresa

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu[6] (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta,[7] was an Albanian-Indian[4] Roman Catholic nun and missionary.[8] She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosi

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Carla M. Pacis

Carla M. Pacis is a writer, a teacher and a former bookstore owner. She has written several books for children, a couple of novels for young adults and has won several local awards for her stories. She has also edited several books, not all for children, a print magazine and an on-line magazine, both for children.

She is a lecturer at the University of the Philippines and at the De La Salle University, teaching and conducting workshops on how to write for children and young adults, and is a Resident Fellow of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. During the summer break, she conducts writing workshops for adults, teenagers and children and sometimes will talk to parents and teachers on the power of reading. She will never say no to a scho

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Virgilio S. Almario

Virgilio S. Almario, better known by his pen name, Rio Alma, is a Filipino artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. He is a National Artist of the Philippines.

Growing up in Bulacan among peasants, Almario sought his education in Manila and completed his degree in A.B. Political Science at the University of the Philippines. A prolific writer, he spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry together with Rogelio G. Mangahas and Lamberto E. Antonio. His earliest pieces of literary criticism were collected in Ang Makata sa Panahon ng Makina (1972), now considered the first book of literary criticism in Filipino. Later, in the years of martial law, he set aside modernism and formalism an

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Edgar Calabia Samar

Edgar Calabia Samar is a multi-awarded poet and novelist from the Philippines. His first novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, received the NCCA Writer’s Prize in 2005, and its English translation as Eight Muses of the Fall was longlisted in the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009. In 2013, he received two Philippine National Book Awards––one for his second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909 (Best Novel), and another for his book on the creative process, Halos Isang Buhay: Ang Manananggal sa Pagsusulat ng Nobela (Best Book of Criticism). Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, the first book in his YA series Janus Silang, also received the Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in 2015 and the Philippine National Children’s Book Award for Best 201

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Melissa Salva

Melissa Salva writes contemporary fiction, children's books, and poetry. Her works have appeared in national publications as well as literary anthologies published in the Philippines and abroad.

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Han Kang

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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

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Yvette Tan

YVETTE NATALIE U. TAN is a Manila-based horror writer. Her works have been published in The Philippine Free Press, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Manila Times, Uno magazine, Rogue magazine, Story Philippines, and the Philippine Genre Stories, among others.

Her fiction has also appeared in anthologies such as Sleepless in Manila and Philippine Speculative Fiction II and III.

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Bebang Siy

Beverly Wico Siy grew up in a house that overlooks the sea in a busy district called Ermita in Manila. She loves swimming as a child and, now, she is a licensed scuba diver. Beverly has written in one form or another since she was in college, but literature for children has always been her favorite.

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Rob Cham

Rob Cham is a freelance illustrator, designer, and comic artist who's done illustration works for notable publications and magazines like Rouge, Smile, Esquire, the Philippine Star. He has also worked with brands like McDonald's and Adidas. Cham has also worked with various government agencies, namely the Department of Social Welfare and Development as well as the Department of Foreign Affairs.

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Ronaldo S. Vivo Jr.

Ronaldo Soledad Vivo, Jr. is the author of the Dreamland Trilogy—'Ang Kapangyarihang Higit sa Ating Lahat' (The Power Above Us All), 'Ang Bangin sa Ilalim ng Ating mga Paa' (The Abyss Beneath Our Feet), and 'Ang Suklam sa Ating Naaagnas na Balat' (The Loathe Within Our Rotting Flesh). He is an award-winning author, having been a finalist for both the Madrigal-Gonzales First Book Award and the National Book Awards for novels, and a recipient of the Gawad Bienvenido Lumbera for short fiction. He is the founder of UngazPress, a collective of writers from the town of Pateros. As a musician, he operates Sound Carpentry Recordings, which releases music on cassette, CD, and vinyl for worldwide distribution. He also serves as the drummer for bands

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Sugaru Miaki

Sugaru Miaki (三秋縋) is a Japanese writer. He was born in 1990 in Iwate Prefecture. He debuted in 2013 with Starting Over. He is also the author of Three Days of Happiness, Parasites in Love, and Your Story.

In March 2019, Your Story was nominated for the 40th Eiji Yoshikawa Literary Newcomer Award.

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Bernalyn Hapin Sastrillo

Si Bernalyn Hapin Sastrillo ay isang manunulat, mandudula, at minsa’y nakagawa na rin siya ng maiikling pelikula. Naging writing fellow siya sa IYAS National Writer’s Workshop (2015), Virgin Labfest Writing Fellowship (2014), at Kabanata Young Adult Writers’ Workshop (2014).

Ang Detective Boys of Masangkay: Ang Mangkukulam ay ang una niyang nobela. Ito’y nabuo mula sa pira-pirasong alaala niya bilang batang '90s, na hinubog upang maging ganap na akda sa tulong ng Kabanata Workshop.

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Mary Ann Ordinario-Floresta

Mary Ann Ordinario is the founder/Directress of ABC Educational Development Center in Kidapawan City. She graduated from Philippine Women's University with a degree of Bachelor of Arts major in Mass Communications. She furthered her studies by taking up her training on Early Childhood Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City.
May Ann was also a former broadcaster, scriptwriter, and Research Head of DXND- Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation in Central Mindanao. She is the author of 25 children's books. Her book The Crying Trees swept the 2016 Grand Prize inhe Samsung KidsTime Award in Singapore, with four of her books winning the second prize.

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Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

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Liza Flores

Liza Flores is one of the leading children’s book illustrators in the Philippines. Her books “The Secret is in the Soil” (2012), and “Ang Maliit na Kalabaw” (2021) have been included in the National Children’s Book Award Best Reads for 2012-2013 and 2020-2021. She mentors illustrators from different countries through Room to Read, an international nonprofit organization. Liza also runs Studio Dialogo, a graphic design studio in Manila. She designed “KarapatDapat” (2018), which was included in The White Ravens list in 2020.

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Christine S. Bellen-Ang

Christine S. Bellen graduated from UP Diliman in 1995 with a BA in Philippine Studies, majors in Creative Writing and Art Studies. In 2003, she received an MA in Philippine Studies with majors in Philippine Literature and Art Studies.

She is a Writing Fellow of Pambansang Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (PANULAT) and the Barlaya Writers for Children of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and Adarna House. She is also a Literary Criticism Fellow of the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing and Research Center at the De La Salle University. A former vice president of Kuwentista ng mga Tsikiting (KUTING) and a current member of Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND), she has held several lectures regarding

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Irene Carolina A. Sarmiento

Irene is an occupational therapist who works with children with special needs. Her first book, Spinning (Anvil, 2009), is about a little boy with autism. As an author, her stories have won awards from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Foundation, Philippine Free Press, and Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards.

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Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

Cristina has been writing for Philippine newspapers at the young age of fifteen and is now an award-winning author.

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