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    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

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    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

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    Phil LIT

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    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

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    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.

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