
Si Isem sa Bayang Bawal Tumawa
2003
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In the town of Misoot, Datu Rupanget forbids laughing. That's why everyone is grumpy, sullen, ill-tempered, and wailing. Until the very unusual Isem, born with a perpetual grin on his face, arrives in town. Can he change the datu's oppressive decree?
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Eugene Y. Evasco
Author · 12 books
Eugene Y. Evasco is a writer, editor, translator, and collector of children’s books. He is currently a Full Professor at the UP College of Arts and Letters. Some of his new books at Lampara are Ang Nag-iisa at Natatanging si Onyok, Ang Singsing-Pari sa Pisara, Ang Beybi naming Mamaw, and the Filipino translation of Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. In 2014, he won the UP Gawad sa Natatanging Publikasyon sa Filipino (Malikhaing Pagsulat category). He became a part of the Hall of Fame of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in 2009 and is currently a Fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing. He was accepted as a Research Fellow to the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany.