LEGAZPI CITY — Five known Bicolano literary writers will be honored on Monday at the 10th Taboan National Writers Festival at the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA) in Pili town in Camarines Sur province.
Recipients of the Taboan Award will include retired broadcaster Rufo Tuy Jr., Msgr. Noel de los Santos, Dr. Susana Cabredo, Dr. Emelina Regis, and the late Sorsogon cultural advocate, Reynaldo Jamoralin. The awardees will be honored for their respective contributions to Bikol language and literature, festival director Frank Peñones said.
Peñones said some 50 literary writers, scholars, and academics in Bicol will gather for a two-day conference to observe the 10th anniversary of the Taboan National Writers Festival.
Peñones, in an emailed statement, said the Taboan National Writers Festival, which is named after the Visayan word for marketplace, will feature the discussion of various topics revolving around the festival theme of Lawas/Literatura or Body/Literature in at least two plenary and several parallel sessions.
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