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1st PANGASINAN LITERARY AWARDS Poetry, Essay and Short Story Writing Contest The Pangasinan Literary Awards, is the province’s 1st literary contest, conceptualized to help develop Pangasinan literature by providing incentives for professional and aspiring Pangasinan writers to craft their most proficient literary works in their native language. This award, is thus, envisioned to also help in the preservation of the Pangasinan language and in the Pangasinenses’ appreciation of their mother tongue, in the written form. On its first year, the PLA announces that it is now accepting submissions for Poetry and Short Story Categories under the Adult Division, and Poetry and Essay Categories under the Youth Division. GUIDELINES AND RULES OF THE CONTEST: 1. The contest is open to all writers in the Province of Pangasinan, except those of the organizers, the judges and their immediate kin. Deadline for submission of entries is on March 14, 2012. 2. Entries must be original (not translated from

E' con grande orgoglio che di seguito pubblichiamo le traduzioni italiane - alcune anche in esclusiva - delle poesie del poeta filippino Santiago Villafania. Per ragioni di spazio - vista la lunghezza delle silloge - abbiamo preferito presentare solo le traduzioni ma, è giusto sottolineare che, il poeta ha scritto i suoi versi originali in lingua Pangasinan, pertanto il lavoro di traduzione si è articolato in più fasi. Una prima traduzione è stata fatta dal Pangasinan all'Inglese e una seconda traduzione dall'Inglese all'Italiano. I versi sono stati pubblicati con il diretto consenso dell'Autore e, a tal proposito, si ringrazia anche la poetessa americana Ute Margaret Saine che, oltre ad aver tradotto alcuni dei seguenti scritti, ha svolto anche il non facile compito d'intermediario tra Noi e il poeta Santiago Villafania. Redazione del Dinanimismo --- PANGASINAN Versi di Santiago Villafania in lingua originale. dia ed nipangaw a dapag a bansa na pusok anggapo’y

Rabindranath Tagore, Aimé Césaire and Pablo Neruda – poet activists and historic figures from different geo-cultural spheres (Asia, Africa/Caribbean, Europe and Latin America) who wore their affiliations on their sleeves, were able to respond to the burdens of history in their time, from the second half of the nineteenth century (Tagore was born in 1861) to the early twenty-first century (with the death of Césaire in 2008). Their activism and literary work challenged the contradictions of an unequal and unfair world system and developed a new understanding of their society and the world in order to establish a concrete and universal humanism. The work and paths of these three major writers are a reflection at the highest level of the interrelationship between the universal and the particular in understanding the complex processes of modernity. Tagore, Neruda and Césaire defined themselves first and foremost as poets. Yet, Art and Poetry remain the irreplaceable bearers of mediation bet