Writing Pangasinan literature urged
By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, August 1 (PIA) -- Professional writers in this province urged blooming literary writers in a workshop Saturday to use the local language as their medium. Poet Santiago Villafania said the Pangasinan language lacks a large body of literature compared to other local languages. Critics in writers’ workshop in Manila and the Cordilleras are always asking why there are very few pieces of literature written in the language, he added. Author and lawyer Ferdinand Quinto noted that Pangasinan literature is already in long hiatus. Villafania and Quinto, along with Editor-in-Chief Sergio Bumadilla, served as the panelists during the first Pangasinan Writers’ Workshop held at the Capitol Resort Hotel here. Attending the workshop were at least 20 individuals who participated in the First Pangasinan Literary Contest Kurit Panlunggaring last April. Non-winning entries in the literary contest were critiqued in the workshop, where the local language was