Uuwi na ang Nanay Kong si Darna
By Edgar Samar
2003
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3.92
Average Rating
300
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Ang kwentong ito ay tungkol sa batang si Popoy na di matiis ang pagdating ng kanyang Nanay na matagal nawala. Darating na ang Nanay niyang kakaiba!. Ito dahil sabi ng Tatay niya, siya daw si Darna, ang mabait at matapang na bayaning Pilipino. This is a story about a young boy named Popoy who cannot wait for his mother to come home. This is because his father told him that she is "Darna", the good and tough Filipino superhero.
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
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Author
Edgar Samar
Author · 13 books
Edgar Calabia Samar is a multi-awarded poet and novelist from the Philippines. His first novel, Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, received the NCCA Writer’s Prize in 2005, and its English translation as Eight Muses of the Fall was longlisted in the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2009. In 2013, he received two Philippine National Book Awards––one for his second novel, Sa Kasunod ng 909 (Best Novel), and another for his book on the creative process, Halos Isang Buhay: Ang Manananggal sa Pagsusulat ng Nobela (Best Book of Criticism). Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon, the first book in his YA series Janus Silang, also received the Philippine National Book Award for Best Novel in 2015 and the Philippine National Children’s Book Award for Best 2014-2015 Read in 2016. He has also received prizes for his poetry and fiction from the Palanca and the PBBY-Salanga Writer’s Prize. His other books include Pag-aabang sa Kundiman: Isang Tulambuhay, a poetry collection, and 101 Kagila-gilalas na Nilalang, a children's encyclopedia of Philippine fantastic creatures. In 2010, he was invited as writer-in-residence to the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa.
