AWARD-WINNING author Criselda Yabes’ second novel Broken Islands, recently released by the Ateneo de Manila University Press, will be launched at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila on July 13, Saturday.
During the launch, Yabes will also deliver a craft lecture to literature graduate students of DLSU. She will share her experiences about writing a novel set in a town on the island of Cebu in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan).
Broken Islands follows Below the Crying Mountain, which won for Yabes the University of the Philippines Centennial Literary award in 2008 and was nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2010. This year, the Penguin Southeast Asia edition of Below the Crying Mountain will also be released.
Yabes is better known as an investigative journalist writing books on the Philippine military and Mindanao, such as Boys from the Barracks and Peace Warriors.
This book launch-cum-craft lecture is organized by the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Literature Department of DLSU, in cooperation with the Ateneo de Manila University Press and the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center.
The event — to be held from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. at the DLSU Libraries, Learning Commons, 6/F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall, DLSU — is open to the public. For reservations and inquiries, email may.raquepo@dlsu.edu.ph.
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