Philippine Centre

Philippine PEN (Philippine Center of International PEN)

531 Padre Faura Street
Ermita, Manila
Philippines
or:
P.O. Box 3959
Manila, Philippines
Tel. (632) 523-0870
Fax (632) 525-5038
E-mail: philippinepen@yahoo.com

Five key facts:

  • Philippine PEN was founded by the novelist F. Sionil Jose in 1958.
  • It is the oldest writers' organization in the Philippines.
  • Its counts over two hundred Filipino writers as members.
  • It meets once a month, usually on the last Saturday of the month, and organizes an annual conference on topics related to literature and writing.

To mark the event of its 50th anniversary, it organized a national conference on the theme "Literature, Nation, and Globalization," and published three anthologies of contemporary Philippine literature and one retrospective anthology of works by PEN members past and present.

On 23 April you can read and listen to the poem in...

Bikol     
Cebuano     
Hiligaynon     
Kinaray-a     
Matigsalog     
Tagalog     
Chavacano     

And read the poem in...

Iloko Read the poem    
Tausug Read the poem    
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