My Favorite Book winners for 2009
MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine STAR, National Book Store and Globe Telecom have chosen winners for My Favorite Book 2009 contest.
Grand prize: Joel E. Abelinde, who wrote the essay “My Mother, Raskolnikov and I”
Second prize: Emerson Bengco, “Up Close with ‘Personal’”
Third prize: Manuel Garcia Calleja, “Writing: A business both Serious and Joyful”
Five honorable-mention winners:
Jillian Joyce Ong Tan, “A Classic Dysfunctional Family”
Madeline Romero, “Literature and Democratic Spaces”
Fulton Acosta, “Taking the fourth”
May de los Santos, “Stories About Lives After God”
Mark Andreo Badiola Montesines, “A Jesus Story by an Erstwhile Atheist”
Awarding of winners will be at 11 a.m. on March 23, Tuesday, at Enchanté Restaurant & Bar by Chef Jessie in Oakwood Premier, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
