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But elements of the fantastic also come in his works. In the 2006 Graphic/Fiction Awards, the main local sponsor of the contest, specialty book shop Fully Booked, acknowledged Brillantes as one of the godfathers of fantastic literature in English by naming the first category the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose.
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is a 2023 book by journalist Patricia Evangelista, published by Random House. The book documents the thousands of Filipinos killed by extrajudicial death squads and vigilantes during the administration of the president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte .
National Book Store, Inc. (also spelled National Bookstore and abbreviated as NBS) is a retail company based in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. [2] It operates a bookstore and office-supplies store chain of the same name. It is the largest bookstore chain in the Philippines with over 230 branches nationwide. [3]
Vibal Publishing House, Inc. (also known as Vibal Group, Inc., Vibal, or VPHI) is a major publishing house in the Philippines based in Quezon City. Vibal was founded in 1953 by Hilarion P. Vibal and by his wife, Esther Asuncion-Vibal. [1] Vibal is a textbook, reference materials, and multimedia products publisher and is the biggest in the country.
Anvil Publishing, Inc., is the publishing arm of National Book Store.It publishes print books, e-books, and audiobooks. Anvil is a nationwide book dealer to network servicing dealers in the Philippines which includes National Book Store (Anvil's parent company), Goodwill Book Store, Rex Book Store, and Solidaridad.
The National Book Development Board is the book agency of the Philippines mandated to create a robust environment for publishing that stands on a strong culture of reading. It provides technical and developmental assistance to creatives, publishers, booksellers, enterprises, and individuals involved in the production of books and the business ...
History books about the Philippines (4 P) M. Books about the Ferdinand Marcos administration (2 P) N. Novels set in the Philippines (2 C, 59 P)
The book was a surprise hit in 2001, quickly selling out its first run of 500 copies. [2] By 2013, it had sold over 240,000 copies, at which time a 12th anniversary edition was published. [ 2 ] The success of Bob Ong's book among Filipinos has been attributed to its conversational tone which uses humor to point out various absurdities inherent ...