Retired UP professor leads 'Premio' honores
Writer, educator and researcher Prof. Ma. Lilia F. Realubit, PhD of the UP College of Education was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award during the awards night of the 1st Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon, a regionwide literary tilt launched by the Arejola Foundation for Social Responsibility to forge an advocacy for Bicol literary arts, held at the St. Vincent de Paul Auditorium of the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary, Naga City last Sept. 25, this year. The retired professor was cited for founding the Kabulig Bikol, a writers' organization, and the Bikol Heritage Society, Inc. Her pioneering efforts as scholar and critic have resulted in the Ibalon: Ethnohistory of the Bikol Region (1983), Bikols of the Philippines (1984), Bikol Literary History (2004), Bikol Dramatic Tradition (1989) and other scholarly works that inspired a whole generation of Bicolano writers and intellectuals.
Also honored in the awards night were Rizaldy M. Manrique for his Bikol fiction, Pacto de Sangre, which won the Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Osipon gold medallion and Kristian S. Cordero for his collection of Bikol poems, HALI(Y)A: Pagsantigwar kan mga Yawa kan Banwaan, the gold medallion winner of the Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Rawitdawit. Manrique and Cordero were each awarded the cash prize of P10,000.00.
Rawitdawit finalists Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, Araceli Calomos-Delgado, Jose Jason Chancoco, Estelito B. Jacob were awarded a framed Diploma of Merit. A second Diploma was awarded to double finalists Araceli Calomos-Delgado, Kristian S. Cordero and Estelito B. Jacob who were also cited in the Osipon category. The cited entries were chosen from submissions from all over the Philippines by judges (for rawitdawit) Fr. Wilmer Tria, noted Bikolista Carlos Briones, Pedro Sabido Grantee for Bikol Writing Frank Penones; (for Osipon) Prof. Danny Gerona,PhD., publisher Joe Obias and Mr. Rudy Alano of the NCCA Committee on Literary Arts. Alano and Penones also sit as members of the Executive Committee of the Premio Tomas.
Winners of the Premio para sa Parabasa, a readership prize launched to widen the audience for literature written in the Bikol language, were each awarded Diploma of Merit and a fellowship grant to the 2nd Juliana Arejola-Fajardo Workshop sa Pagsurat Bikol, also under the auspices of the Foundation, on Dec. 28 to 30, this year in Pili, Camarines Sur. Parabasa winners Karla Daphne Neonal, Owen del Castillo and Otello Santiano were chosen for their 150-word literary criticism reviewing a finalist's work as it appeared in The Bicol Mail and The Bikol Reporter, two weeklies based in Naga City. The ten entries cited in the Premio Tomas appeared in the said weeklies for five consecutive weeks as a move to make contemporary Bikol writing more accessible to the reading public.
Chaired by prize-winning poet Carlo Arejola and co-chaired by cultural worker Fabiana Arejola, the prize is named in honor of a patriot, writer and leading member of the Propaganda Movement and is envisioned to become Bicol's premier literary prize. Apart from the Premio Tomas and the Juliana writers' workshop, the Arejola Foundation also spearheads the Cry of Resistance outreach program in Taban, Minalabac, Camarines Sur. Now on its fourth year, the Taban outreach program is held around the second week of March to commemorate the ascension of Gen. Ludovico Arejola as over-all commander of Ambos Camarines during the Filipino-American War in 1900.
Writer, educator and researcher Prof. Ma. Lilia F. Realubit, PhD of the UP College of Education was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award during the awards night of the 1st Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Literaturang Bikolnon, a regionwide literary tilt launched by the Arejola Foundation for Social Responsibility to forge an advocacy for Bicol literary arts, held at the St. Vincent de Paul Auditorium of the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary, Naga City last Sept. 25, this year. The retired professor was cited for founding the Kabulig Bikol, a writers' organization, and the Bikol Heritage Society, Inc. Her pioneering efforts as scholar and critic have resulted in the Ibalon: Ethnohistory of the Bikol Region (1983), Bikols of the Philippines (1984), Bikol Literary History (2004), Bikol Dramatic Tradition (1989) and other scholarly works that inspired a whole generation of Bicolano writers and intellectuals.
Also honored in the awards night were Rizaldy M. Manrique for his Bikol fiction, Pacto de Sangre, which won the Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Osipon gold medallion and Kristian S. Cordero for his collection of Bikol poems, HALI(Y)A: Pagsantigwar kan mga Yawa kan Banwaan, the gold medallion winner of the Premio Tomas Arejola para sa Rawitdawit. Manrique and Cordero were each awarded the cash prize of P10,000.00.
Rawitdawit finalists Jaime Jesus Borlagdan, Araceli Calomos-Delgado, Jose Jason Chancoco, Estelito B. Jacob were awarded a framed Diploma of Merit. A second Diploma was awarded to double finalists Araceli Calomos-Delgado, Kristian S. Cordero and Estelito B. Jacob who were also cited in the Osipon category. The cited entries were chosen from submissions from all over the Philippines by judges (for rawitdawit) Fr. Wilmer Tria, noted Bikolista Carlos Briones, Pedro Sabido Grantee for Bikol Writing Frank Penones; (for Osipon) Prof. Danny Gerona,PhD., publisher Joe Obias and Mr. Rudy Alano of the NCCA Committee on Literary Arts. Alano and Penones also sit as members of the Executive Committee of the Premio Tomas.
Winners of the Premio para sa Parabasa, a readership prize launched to widen the audience for literature written in the Bikol language, were each awarded Diploma of Merit and a fellowship grant to the 2nd Juliana Arejola-Fajardo Workshop sa Pagsurat Bikol, also under the auspices of the Foundation, on Dec. 28 to 30, this year in Pili, Camarines Sur. Parabasa winners Karla Daphne Neonal, Owen del Castillo and Otello Santiano were chosen for their 150-word literary criticism reviewing a finalist's work as it appeared in The Bicol Mail and The Bikol Reporter, two weeklies based in Naga City. The ten entries cited in the Premio Tomas appeared in the said weeklies for five consecutive weeks as a move to make contemporary Bikol writing more accessible to the reading public.
Chaired by prize-winning poet Carlo Arejola and co-chaired by cultural worker Fabiana Arejola, the prize is named in honor of a patriot, writer and leading member of the Propaganda Movement and is envisioned to become Bicol's premier literary prize. Apart from the Premio Tomas and the Juliana writers' workshop, the Arejola Foundation also spearheads the Cry of Resistance outreach program in Taban, Minalabac, Camarines Sur. Now on its fourth year, the Taban outreach program is held around the second week of March to commemorate the ascension of Gen. Ludovico Arejola as over-all commander of Ambos Camarines during the Filipino-American War in 1900.
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