Jonah Leigh Ramos’s Reviews > Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature: An Anthology of Winning Works The 1980s Short Story > Status Update

"Filipinos writing in English instead of their native language tend to be short story writers rather than novelists. Alan-- may I call you Alan? --you should be careful that you're not remembered, or forgotten, merely as a short story writer." - Prof. Leticia Alva - Eli Ang Barroso, "Our Lady of the Arts and Letters"

"There's something unnatural about being too neat. A sunset, for example, isn't neat. Assorted lines, shapes, forms and colors are scrambled together with the sun helter-skelter at the horizon. But the whole picture is always beautiful." - Prof. Leticia Alva - Eli Ang Barroso, "Our Lady of Arts and Letters"

"I who had met Aurora for the first time could readily accept what I saw-- another woman trying to keep her wits, her dignity, and what remained of her prime while seeking redemption in another country... you knew none of it was facade. Nothing in her past could ever haunt her. Everyone else she came across a mere footnote to some epic personal history she was creating." - Charlton Ong, "Another Country"