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Philippine Star
Philippine Star
That is the English translation of National Artist Amado V. Hernandez’s first novel, “Mga Ibong Mandaragit.” This novel will be the second book among the Philippine titles in the South East Asian Classics series of Penguin Random House in Singapore. The first Philippine title is “Radiance and Sunrise,” my English translation of “Banaag at Sikat,” the monumental novel by Lope K. Santos published in 1906. Penguin Books has commissioned me to translate these two books in English, as well as the second novel of Hernandez, “Luha ng Buwaya,” which I will translate to “Crocodile Tears.” I will work o…