On Eliserio’s “Sa mga Suso ng Liwanag”

Dennis Aguinaldo and Rosario Cruz Lucero wrote their commentaries on U Z. Eliserio’s Sa mga Suso ng Liwanag here and here, respectively. You can also read an excerpt from the novel here.

Eliserio’s books are available at the UP Faculty Center. (I still have to go to UP just to buy my copies next week—because I do not have weekday classes at UP this semester, and their offices are closed on Saturdays.)

Lualhati Bautista (1946-)

Lualhati Bautista was born on December 2, 1946 in Sta. Ana, Manila. Bautista also writes short stories, and scripts for movies and television. Her novels have been awarded the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, and her Dekada ‘70 is also considered as a major Tagalog novel by the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Literature. Parts of her novels have been translated into English and Finnish.

Published Novels

• Gapo (1980)
• Dekada ‘70 (1983)
• Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa (1984)
• Sa mga Gabing Wala ang Diyos… Ipagdasal N’yo Kami! (1987)
• Charity Ward (1991)
• Sayaw sa Apoy (1991)
• Ang Babae sa Basag na Salamin (1994)
• Apartment 3-A Mariposa St. (1994)
• Araw ng mga Puso (1994)
• Isang Buong Laot at Kalahati ng Daigdig (1994)
• Sila at ang Gabi (1994)
• Hugot sa Sinapupunan (2004)
• Ang Kabilang Panig ng Bakod (2005)
• Desisyon (2005)

Liwayway Arceo (1920-1999)

Published Novels

• Nasaan ang Ligaya (1947)
• Tanikala (1953)
• Ako ang Kanyang Ina (1962)
• Ayoko sa Iyo (1962)
• Ikaw ay Akin (1962)
• Binili Ko (1963)
• Lagi Kitang Mahal (1963)
• Limutin Mo Ako (1963)
• Dalawang Kalbaryo (1964)
• Kulay Rosas ang Pag-ibig (1964)
• Kung Saan Ka Naroon (1964)
• Lydia Ansaldo M.D. (1964)
• Hiram na Laya (1965)
• Tatak ng Pagkakasala (1965)
• Iba-ibang Kulay ng Pag-ibig (1966)
• Ipakipaglaban Mo Ako(1966)
• Liza (1966)
• Ginto sa Dulo ng Bahaghari (1967)
• Bahaghari sa Lupa (1968)
• Ikaw ang Ilaw Ko (1968)
• Minsan Lamang ang Gabi (1968)
• Nagbabagang Paraiso (1969)
• Sa Pinto ng Impiyerno (1970)
• Bawal na Paraiso (1971)
• Hanggang sa Kabila ng Lagt (1971)
• Canal de la Reina (1972)
• Piitang Ginto (1972)
• Dalawang Daigdig (1973)
• Saan Man at Kailan Man (1973)

Rizal’s Novels on Discount

Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo are now available on discount in North America if you buy them as a set. These editions published by the University of Hawaii Press are edited by Raul Locsin and translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin. You can read the translator’s introduction to Fili in PDF here.

The London Review of Books has this to say about the books: “A huge advance over previous translations, handsomely laid out and with enough footnotes to be helpful without being pettifogging. . . . There are few prophets who are honoured in their own country, and José Rizal is among them. But the condition of this honour has for decades been his unavailability. Mrs. Lacson-Locsin has changed this by giving the great man back his sad and seditious laughter. And it is badly needed.”

A Day at Lopez Museum

I just returned from a day of research at the Lopez Museum library; this was actually my first visit in what’s supposedly a favorite resource hub among Filipino scholars. It was costly (PhP 100 entrance fee + PhP 20 for the first hour of computer use + PhP 10 for every succeeding hour of computer use; and the transportation cost averages to about PhP 150) but nothing’s of course more valuable than seeing some rare Filipiniana that are not available in the more accessible, at least in my case, Rizal Library. Rizal Library, nonetheless, has some periodicals which can’t be found in LM, like Ang Kapatid ng Bayan where the earlier novels of Lope K. Santos (Salawahang Pag-ibig) and Valeriano H. Peña were serialized (Unang Bulaklak). Atisan Novels will report on the outcome of this preliminary research in the following days.