1521 The Battle of Mactan takes place. At around 3:00 in the morning of this day, a Spanish force of 60 soldiers and an equal number of Cebuanos reaches Mactan. Faced by a force of some 1,500 Mactan inhabitants, The Spaniards are defeated and their leader, Ferdinand Magellan, is killed. 1565 The Spanish expedition of […]
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Hunger in Nayawak
Ceballos, Lamberto Hunger in Nayawak and other stories. Translated by Hope Sabanpan-Yu and Trizer Dale Mansueto Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press, 2013. P 500.00 in the Philippines* Review essay of Hunger in Nayawak by Maria Ima Carmela Ariate in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Issue 13 (March 2013)
Canto Voice
Faigao, Cornelio Canto Voice. Edited by Hope Sabanpan-Yu Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press, 2010. P 500.00 in the Philippines*
Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction
Brown Child: The Best of the Faigao Poetry and Fiction. Edited by Hope Sabanpan-Yu and Erlinda K. Alburo Cebu City: University of San Carlos Press, 2014. P 500.00 in the Philippines*
House of Cards
Espina-Moore, Austregelina House of Cards. Translated by Hope Sabanpan-Yu. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2013. P 525.00 in the Philippines
Yu wins the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language
The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded the NCCA Writers’ Prize 2014 for Essay in Cebuano Language to Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, USC Director of the Cebuano Studies Center and professor of the Department of Languages and Literature, for her entry Naglangoy sa Langit. The NCCA Writers’ Prize is a biennial award given […]
Center receives recognition during the Don Mariano Awards 2013
Last September 8, 2013 was the 136th birth anniversary of Mariano Avila Mercado, mayor of Carcar in the 1920s. During his administration, Mercado built the Carcar Dispensary, formerly health center before and after the war and is now a museum, the swimming pool just behind the dispensary which served as American soldiers’ recreation area, the […]
Dulaang Cebuano
Mojares, Resil B., EK Alburo and Don Pagusara Dulaang Cebuano. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1997. 502 p. (trilingual text in original Cebuano and in Filipino and English translations of Ismael Paras’ Asawa sa Sugarol, Vicente Sotto’s Gugma sa Yutang Natawhan, Buenaventura Rodriguez’ Mini, and Junne Cañizares’ Rajah Hamabar; with a critical introduction to […]
Cebuano Folktales 2
Alburo, Erlinda K. Cebuano Folktales 2 Cebu City: University of San Carlos Publications, 1977. 43p. (Booklet with English translation of some Cebuano folktales) P45.00 in the Philippines*
Cebuano Folksongs 1
Alburo, Erlinda K. Cebuano Folksongs 1. Cebu City: University of San Carlos Publications, 1978. 39p. (Booklet with musical notation and texts in Cebuano and English of some popular Cebuano folksongs) P 45.00 in the Philippines* With picture