Ambeth Ocampo, only the fifth Filipino to win Fukuoka Prize
Despite the numerous accolades he has received in his career, historian and book author Ambeth R. Ocampo said he was humbled after being chosen as a recipient of this year’s Fukuoka Prize.
Despite the numerous accolades he has received in his career, historian and book author Ambeth R. Ocampo said he was humbled after being chosen as a recipient of this year’s Fukuoka Prize.
THE DAILY news is full of statistics of the dead and the dying. But, still, I turn to live classical music. So many things these days do not favor going
Author of two novels (and a third being written), master of the short story in English (three collections), biographer, literature professor and newspaper columnist, José “Butch” Dalisay Jr. has likewise written and produced some 12 plays from 1970 to 1994 (also published in three collections).
Amazing how women’s intuition works. There I was, yearning to write something about Marilou, but resisting the urge lest some people think I had joined the bandwagon, claiming to be one of her best friends which definitely I was not, when suddenly, I got this call from an editor-friend: “Ine, how would you like to write an article about Marilou?”
In her short but fruitful life, filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya (1955-2012) lived and breathed music, which was also an integral part of all her films.
When we were seminarians in the mid-’80s, Fr. Roque Ferriols, SJ, told us in our Philosophy class that the Filipino translation of Ignatius of Loyola’s “Take and Receive” was inaccurate. The final line of the prayer goes, “Give me only your love and your grace, these make me rich, I ask for nothing more.”
As writer, director, teacher and diver, Marilou Diaz-Abaya has never failed to astound. On every occasion where we have had the privilege to observe her, she has always revealed something new in her persona. We come home from the book launch of her latest project, “Reefs of Paradise, a Divine Gallery,” feeling blessed, discerning a holiness, a oneness with the Superior Being we have never yet experienced especially under such circumstances.
Love, commitment. The self, comfort, material possessions. Family. Occasionally, these are put to the test. Which will endure? At what price? Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s latest film, “Ina: Ikaw ang Pag-ibig,” does
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