Scribd
Upload
2K views18 pages

Phil LIT

Telesforo S. Sungkit Jr. is an agricultural engineering graduate from UPLB who comes from the Higaonon tribe in Malitbog, Bukidnon. He has written several award-winning novels, including Batbat, which he wrote the first draft of in 2005, and Agalon sa mga Balod, which won the 2011 NCCA Writer's Prize for the Cebuano language novel category. The novel tells the story of a young Higaonon man who discovers he has supernatural ability to control bodies of water. The Higaonon people are an indigenous group located in parts of Mindanao known as Lumads, meaning native or indigenous people, who primarily engage in farming

Uploaded by

Dominic Lim
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
2K views18 pages

Phil LIT

Telesforo S. Sungkit Jr. is an agricultural engineering graduate from UPLB who comes from the Higaonon tribe in Malitbog, Bukidnon. He has written several award-winning novels, including Batbat, which he wrote the first draft of in 2005, and Agalon sa mga Balod, which won the 2011 NCCA Writer's Prize for the Cebuano language novel category. The novel tells the story of a young Higaonon man who discovers he has supernatural ability to control bodies of water. The Higaonon people are an indigenous group located in parts of Mindanao known as Lumads, meaning native or indigenous people, who primarily engage in farming

Uploaded by

Dominic Lim
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 18

Telesforo S. Sungkit Jr.

• From the Higaonons of Malitbog,


Bukidnon
• Sungkit is an agricultural engineering
graduate from UPLB. He has put up
a tutorial school in Laguna, but for
six months in 2005 he wrote the first
draft of Batbat. He has since based
in Malitbog town, where he writes
and farms at the same time.
Telesforo S. Sungkit Jr.

• Two-time National Commission for


Culture and the Arts Writers’ Prize
winner
• Also won the NCCA 2011 Writer’s
Prize for the Cebuano language novel
category with his work “Agalon sa
mga Balod” (Lord of the Waves).
“Agalon sa mga Balod” is a story of a
young Higaonon Vincenzo
Makaindan and his discovery of his
supernatural ability to command the
waves and other bodies of water.
LUMAD
• used to denote a group of indigenous
people in the southern Philippines.
• It is a Cebuano term meaning "native" or
"indigenous".
• he term is short for Katawhang
Lumad (Literally: "indigenous people"),
• The Higaonon is located on the
provinces of Bukidnon, Agusan del Sur,
Misamis Oriental, Rogongon, Iligan City,
and Lanao del Norte.
• "people of the wilderness".
• Farming is the most important economic
activity.

You might also like