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Every year since 1982, the Manila Critics Circle has been giving the National Book Awards to the best books written, designed, and published in the Philippines. Early in 2008, the Manila Critics Circle entered into an agreement with the National Book Development Board (Philippines) to institutionalize and co-administer the National Book Awards ...
In April 1961, Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia signed Republic Act No. 3022 into law, declaring April 9 of every year as "Bataan Day". [9]In June 1987, Executive Order No. 203 revised all national holidays in the Philippines, referring to the April 9 holiday as "Araw ng Kagitingan (Bataan and Corregidor Day)". [10]
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. For the third year, the most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens with 12 weeks at the top of the list, followed closely by It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 11 weeks at the top of the list.
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Year Author Book Ref [2] [3] 2017 Reni Eddo-Lodge: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race [5] 2018 Akala: Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire [7] 2019 Lisa Taddeo: Three Women [9] 2020 Doireann Ní Ghríofa: A Ghost in the Throat [20] [11] 2021 Warren Ellis: Nina Simone's Gum [21] [22] 2022 Thomas Halliday: Otherlands ...
Most anticipated 2025 book releases While we look forward to the start of a fresh year, here are 15 new releases we have our eyes on across genres, including romantasy , literary fiction, memoir ...
January 4 – The Philippines and Japan renew the Bilateral Swap Arrangement, granting currency exchange between the Philippine peso and the Japanese yen. [266] [267] January 5 – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin Diokno is named the Global Central Banker of the Year 2022, by the international banking magazine The Banker ...
The partial calendar list contains several of the oldest and larger religious and/or cultural festivals in the country. Each town, city, and village has a dedicated fiesta, resulting in thousands held throughout the year; a few are national in character. Some fiestas may contain multiple/conflicting dates and/or place entries.