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8th volume of Epics of Panay feted in 43rd National Book Awards

Published Feb 14, 2026 04:11 pm
ILOILO CITY – The eighth volume of Sugidanon or the Epics of Panay was awarded Best Book of Poetry in the 43rd National Book Awards.
“Humadapnon (Ginlawan): Sugidanon (Epics) of Panay, Book 8, Volume 4” was named Best Book of Poetry in Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a by the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC).
The NBDB and MCC noted that the book “enriches the cultural, social, and intellectual life of the region and the nation.”
The book is derived from the recorded oral narratives of the Panay Bukidnon Indigenous Peoples (IPs) as chanted by Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan (National Living Treasure) Federico “Tuohan” Caballero who died in 2024.
Published by the University of the Philippines (UP) Press, the book is part of the research undertaken by anthropologist and Professor Emeritus Alicia P. Magos and her team at UP Visayas in Iloilo since 1993.
For the book Humadapnon (Ginlawan), Magos served as chief researcher and translator while Anna Razel “Rara” Limoso Ramirez was associate researcher.
The book, which is one of the 14 in total, had Anna Caballero and Romulo Caballero as Kinaray-a translators.
Among the book’s contributors were Teresita Quezon, Eliodora Dimzon, Prof. Maria Joji Tan, Adhoniz Rebong, Caiden Ramirez, Ramon Ramirez, Teresita Caballero, Alven Polido, Gian Genoveza, Jhunn Harold Manaay, Liby Limoso, Alan Cabalfin, and Jemelie Limoso.
Research for the book began in 2014 during the tenure of Rommel Espinosa as UP Visayas chancellor and Alfredo Pascual as UP System president and published by UP Press under Director Galileo Zafra.
The books published from the epics are based on the original collection found at the UP Visayas Center for West Visayan Studies (CWVS), which helped established the School for Living Tradition (SLT) in the mountain barangays of Calinog, Iloilo to sustain the teaching of the rich oral tradition and other indigenous practices of the Panay Bukidnon to the younger generation.
The SLT was backed by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).
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