Work of folktales, historical pieces, fiction and nonfiction: stories and novels set mostly in Zamboanga Peninsula and Maguindanao. Chabacano pieces.
A Song Of the Sea by Antonio Enriquez The city man and his three companions are fishing very early that morning off the west coast of Labuan, a fishing village in Zamboanga City, island of Mindanao. With him as fishing-guide is Old Tacio, who knows all...
Read moreCopyright © 2006 by A. R. Enriquez Jesuits Return to Fort Pilar: 1666---No Way! Cornerstone of the fortaleza was placed on June 23, 1635, in New Samboangan (ancient name Naawan, and present day Zamboanga); it was called La Fuerza Real de San Jose; the...
Read moreCopyright © 2006 by A. R. Enriquez. Jambangan: the “Garden of Flowers” never was! My compoblano and I were talking about the original name of Zamboanga or its root. So, to him, a media practitioner himself, whom I’d known for years, I said, “Zamboanga,...
Read moreCopyright © 2010 by Antonio Enriquez Digital Philippines From paper book- Dance a White Horse to Sleep and Other Stories, Asia-Pacific Series, UQP, Queensland, Australia, 1977 Son by Antonio Fermin Enriquez “Papa will surely get angry when he sees this...
Read moreAntonio Fermin Enriquez Beyond A boy came down the dirt trail dragging one foot behind the other, like one in a trance. As he walked step after step, his feet scuffed the dust behind him in a puff of cloud. His head was bent over his chest, and he raised...
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The Activist: book launch by Antonio Enriquez Author Antonio Enriquez reads from his historical novel "The Activist" (UST Publishing House, Manila, January 2011) at the book launch at Ateneo de Zamboanga Univ., Zamboanga City, March 10, 2011; a considerable...
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Calandracas #1 Selected Stories & Other Writings Philippine Copyright©2006 by A. R. Enriquez Cover Design by Anton Vladimir V. Enriquez Drawing by Nonoy Estarte Contents Fiction Short Stories Asocena 6, Iguana 25, Pablo-Pedro 54, The Ant Hill 79 The Icon...
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Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh By Antonio Enriquez Extract Chapter 1 The two of them—Alberto Gonzales and his cousin Francisco—were on top of the papaya tree by the house in Zamboanga. They were then still boys. Suddenly, the papaya tree started to sway...
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Extracts Subanons Antonio Enriquez PART I 1. Against theflickering petrol torches on a piece of land in Guipos, Zamboanga peninsula, Mindanao, 400 or so nautical miles from Manila, was the camp of an Army unit from the 10th IB. Here and there, stumps...
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