UP Press launches 9 literary titles

NINE literary tiles, including two from critic-scholar Rolando Tolentino and the latest from prize-winning poets Marra PL. Lanot, Merlie Alunan and Merlinda Bobis, were among the 16 books that the University of the Philippines (UP) Press launched recently.

In an omnibus launch called “Paglulungsad: Ikalawang Yugto” at Balay Kalinaw in UP Diliman, Quezon City on December 5, poet, critic and UP Press Director Dr. Jose Neil Garcia formally introduced by Bobis;

by Alicia Magos, Anna Razel Limoso Ramirez and Federico “Tuohan” Caballero; Sanchez; and

, edited by Juaniyo Arcellana. Founded in 1965, UP Press is regarded as the premiere academic publishing house in the country. It has published more than a thousand books, hewing only to the strictest editorial standards in its selection of titles—literary and creative works, anthologies and works in Philippine studies, and research in the various academic disciplines.

Since mid-2011, UP Press has started publishing electronic books in partnership with Flipside Ditigal Content. It also seeks partnerships with foreign academic presses in the reprinting of excellent books on Philippine studies.

UP Press has been named Publisher of the Year by the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle four times, most recently in 2016.