Ma. Isabel Ongpin
Ma. Isabel Ongpin

The Philippine Literary and Writers Festival is this week. More and more Philippine authors, young and younger, are writing. Many of them are writing in English, which, despite the supposed decline of the language here is compensated for by the number of Filipino writers who are exposed to it. Many of them do from their experience of living in other countries by way of working abroad, either through the exile of their parents or their own. This is the Philippine diaspora. In a population of about 100 million Filipinos, 10 percent are out of the country, doing work overseas.

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