Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin

Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin is the author of Anim na Sabado ng Beyblade at
iba pang Sanaysay, which won a National Book Award for 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).

He has published several children’s books; won three Carlos Palanca
Awards; and was a Writing Fellow for Sanaysay in both the Palihang
Rogelio Sicat 5 (2012) and 53rd UP National Writers Workshop. He also
translated Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth in Filipino,
commissioned by the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino and National
Commission for Culture and the Arts. He is al

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