Bebang Siy traces her reading journey and gives us a peek into her Top 15 books of all time.
Listen to the continuation of our conversation with writer, translator , and copyright advocate Bebang Siy.
Released: December 23, 2019
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How did you get into reading? As a child, “It’s Raining Mens” author Bebang Siy flipped through prayer books she couldn’t understand, devoured her elder cousin’s tabloids (particularly the sex advice column!), and went through her dad’s stash of thriller paperbacks. Listen as she talks about the books that made her the reader and writer she is today.
Bebang is a mother, writer, translator, and copyright advocate. She has a Bachelor of Arts Creative Writing in Filipino degree and a Masters degree in Philippine Literature. She is active in the local publishing community and is a Philippines’ Book Champion and Intellectual Property Ambassador in 2015. She works in the Intertextual Division of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Cultural Content Department.
Two of Bebang’s books were National Book Awards finalists in the Essay and Anthology categories. “It’s A Mens World” won the Filipino Readers Choice Awards in 2012.
Bebang is Beverly Wico Siy on Facebook. She blogs at https://babe-ang.blogspot.com/
Books mentioned in the show:
“Bata Bata, Paano ka Ginawa” by Lualhati Bautista
“Una Kong Milenyum, 1963-1981” by Virgilio Almario
“Terminal One” by Almayrah Tiburon
“Terminal Two” by Almayrah Tiburon
“Salamin at Iba Pang Panglaw” by Almayrah Tiburon
“Arimunding-munding” by Alberto Florentino
“The World is an Apple” by Alberto Florentino
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“National Artists of the Philippines Folio” (to be released this year, contact the CCP for copies)
Our book giveaway is courtesy of Penguin Random House.
“The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment the Japanese Way” by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
