HAU-CKS wins national book award for design
Claude Tayag’s book “A Watercolor Journey,” published by Holy Angel University Center for Kapampangan Studies (HAU-CKS), has won this year’s National Book Award (Best Book Design category), designed by Miguel Mari.
The annual book awards, presented by the National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC), resumed this year after a hiatus of two years due to the pandemic, making Tayag’s book, published in 2019, eligible for the competition. The awarding ceremonies were held online.
The NBDB and MCC cited Tayag’s book “for its well considered aesthetic preferences, from the thoughtful choice of paper, the book format, to the choice of typefaces and the delicate layout. Mari, received the award on behalf of the author and the publisher.
Previous winners were (1) “Gloria: Roman Leoncio’s Kapampangan Translation of Huseng Batute’s Verse Novel, Lost and Found” edited by Ambassador Virgilio Reyes Jr. (Translation category, 2004); (2) “A Cofradia of Two: Oral History on the Family Life and Lay Religiosity of Juan D. Nepomuceno and Teresa G. Nepomuceno of Angeles, Pampanga” by Erlita Mendoza (Biography category, 2005); (3) “Arte y Reglas: Kapampangan Grammar and Rules circa 1621” transcribed, translated and annotated bu Fr. Edilberto Santos (Translation category, 2006); (4) “Vocabulario de Pampango en Romance y Diccionario de Romance en Pampango: The English Translation of the Kapampangan-Spanish Dictionary Written by Diego Bergaño” translated by Fr. Venancio Samson (Special Citation, Translation category, 2008); (5) “The Law and Practice on Philippine Corporate Governance” by Atty. Cesar Villanueva (Professions category, 2010); (6) “Pinatubo: The Volcano in our Backyard” by Robby Tantingco (Science category, 2012); (7) “Kawatasan: Obrang Poeta Laureado” featuring the poems of 15 Kapampangan poets laureate, edited by Joel Mallari (Poetry category, special Kapampangan division, 2013); “Gale at Gosu para karing Mal a Patulunan: A Songbook of Traditional Kapampangan Hymns for All Saints Day” by Crispin Cadiang (Non-Fiction Prose category, special Kapampangan division, 2013); (9) “Milk Pigs & Violet Gold: Philippine Cookery” by Bryan Koh (Food category, 2014); and (10) “Capampangan Roots: Primitive Words and Syllables from Polynesian-Austronesian, Sanskrit, Chinese and Bahasa Languages as Roots of the Capampangan Language, Volume One” by Papa Osmubal (Language Studies category, 2017).
This is the 11th time the HAU-CKS has won the National Book Awards. (HAU/FB)
