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Santiago Villafania is a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan. Born in Tuliao, Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan on 31 January 1971, Villafania graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pangasinan in 1991. Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language. His works in the vernacular are some of the most representative, if not among the few that comprise that Pangasinan contemporary literary body. In his first book Balikas na Caboloan (Verses from Caboloan), the Pangasinan anlong resurfaces asserting its tradition amidst intersecting and pollinating genres and literary influences. His book of poems, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles , is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. This second book by Pangasinan’s leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that a

Arap-arapen la’y Hunio lamet tan ed saya’y iloob da’ra’y ogugaw ed iskwuilaan ono awiran, usaren la ima’y tatawagen a mother tongue-based (MTB) education no iner say ikanan pambangat et say salitan uusaren na manaaral dia ed abung odino say abangonan a salita. Kuan da’ra’y iksperto lanti mas mainumay a makaaaral so ugaw no igapo iyan bangatan ed dili ton dila. Dakel balet so patbek tan baleg a problima so arapen da’ra’y mamaistra tan mamaistro. Wadtan a problima so usaren dan tiksbuk ono libro, wadtan a problima no wala so nilaok ed klasi ra so manaaral ya say salita to et Ilocano ono Tagalog tan agto nagogo’y anggatel no makarngel la’y man-Pangasinan, tan wadtan a problima so kakabatan na managbangat ed salitan Pangasinan. Laut lan wadtan so problima ed ortograpiya ta agni naigalut ima’y isasambot dan panuntunan tayo ed ortograpiya. Anto so usaren “abeceda” odino “abakada”? Ay! sigi paladtan! Paipaway tayo la ed Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) so unaan a sipi insan tayo la apigere

nen Santiago Villafania Congratulations ed saray ASNA tan Balitok awardees tayo ed saya’y koma-433n Agew na Pangasinan! Saray maASNAn Romeo C. Mananquil (Visual Arts), Dr. Josephine Arquillano (Fisheries Education), Brig. Gen, Antonio L. Tamayo (Education and Culture); saray ASNA-Balitok Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid (Journalism and Development Communication), tan Sr. Mary John Mananzan, OSB (Women Studies and Feminist Activism). Say malayug tan maluyag kon pangirayew ed sikayon Asin a mabli na Pangasinan, Silew ed Bilonget, Nabang tan yaman ed kaluyagan, tan Antabay na kalangweran! ******* Manlapu ed saray kaibak iran hurado a sikara di Al Mendoza, Sergio Buladilla, tan Atty. Ferdinand Quintos, say masimoon min pangikinon ed sikayoran analo ed 2nd Kurit Panlunggaring. Poetry (Adult Division): Jahwela Querimit Ocay, Alma A. Nepascua, Mark Anthony B. Austria; Poetry (Youth Division): Kim John Santillan, Kristine Dawn B. Dudang, Ma. Angela L. Rosal; Essay (Youth Division): Angela Kate Estr