There were panel discussions during the three days of the Taboan Festival this February on various topics like Visayan Aesthetics, Translation, Regional Children’s Literature, Ecoliterature, Writing Erotica, Living Poetry, and many others. A rich and animated exchange of ideas between the panelists and delegates would usually follow the short lectures by the panelists.
Thirteen Visayan writers received the First Taboan Literary Awards in a formal awarding ceremony on the last day of the festival after a dinner and a cultural presentation of traditional Cebuano love songs and poetry. This award is given to local literary artists of the first rank who have not only written well but who have also labored in pushing the frontiers of writing in the region.
"We need awards like this given in the very place where the honored writers perform their sacred task, if only to remind us that others elsewhere have served the word well before us and that benchmarks of excellence have special roots in special places," de Ungria explained.
The recipients of the First Taboan Literary Awards were Resil B. Mojares, Magdalena G. Jalandoni, Estrella D. Alfon, Austregelina Espina-Moore, Edilberto K. Tiempo, Erlinda Kintanar Alburo, Temistokles Adlawan, Gremer Chan Reyes, Leoncio P. Deriada, Gumer M. Rafanan, Rodolfo Escalon Villanueva (a.k.a. Renato E. Madrid), Rene Estella Amper, and Merlie M. Alunan.
(For more information, please visit their website. Click HERE.)
Thirteen Visayan writers received the First Taboan Literary Awards in a formal awarding ceremony on the last day of the festival after a dinner and a cultural presentation of traditional Cebuano love songs and poetry. This award is given to local literary artists of the first rank who have not only written well but who have also labored in pushing the frontiers of writing in the region.
"We need awards like this given in the very place where the honored writers perform their sacred task, if only to remind us that others elsewhere have served the word well before us and that benchmarks of excellence have special roots in special places," de Ungria explained.
The recipients of the First Taboan Literary Awards were Resil B. Mojares, Magdalena G. Jalandoni, Estrella D. Alfon, Austregelina Espina-Moore, Edilberto K. Tiempo, Erlinda Kintanar Alburo, Temistokles Adlawan, Gremer Chan Reyes, Leoncio P. Deriada, Gumer M. Rafanan, Rodolfo Escalon Villanueva (a.k.a. Renato E. Madrid), Rene Estella Amper, and Merlie M. Alunan.
(For more information, please visit their website. Click HERE.)
