Gilbert Luis R. Centina III

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Gilbert Luis Ramos Centina III [1] was a Filipino-American award-winning Roman Catholic poet[2] who was the author of nine poetry books, two novels and a book of literary criticism. Respected for his poetry,[3][4] his works have been anthologized in Philippine high school and college textbooks[5] and published in the Philippines, Spain, Canada and the United States. Besides English, he also wrote in Spanish and in two Philippine languages, Hiligaynon and Tagalog. He received the Catholic Authors Award in 1996 from the Asian Catholic Publishers and the Archdiocese of Manila under Cardinal Jaime Sin. For his body of poetic work in Spanish which over the years "has become an anthroponymic treasure, memory of parishioners, companions and friends who give title to a fresco of earthly life, with its glories and miseries...," he was posthumously awarded the Premio José Rizal de las Letras Filipinas 2020.[6][7]

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