ILOKANO LITERARY WINNERS TO RECEIVE AWARDS IN SEPTEMBER

The major winner threatened to convince other winners and his group to issue a resolution condemning the Timpuyog dagiti Mannurat iti Iluko iti Filipinas for its failure to give the cash prizes--they were suspecting kinnanmi diay kuartada. Very unkind, very unprofessional daytoy a tao. Dina ammo ti rigatmi a nangipamupusan iti pannakaited dagiti gunggona. But it's all water under the bridge. The sponsor, California-based businessman Terry Gabriel Tugade, has instructed her sister Linda on the venue and date of the awarding program. It will be in Marcos, Ilocos Norte

on September 29, 2012. I emailed Terry to make the confirmation. DIOS-TI-AGNGINA, Terry, for sponsoring all these years this Ilokano Literary Contest. The 4th Tugade Literary Awards hit a brick wall not of the making of TMIF. The major winner and his gang in the other Ilokano writing group should know why we had this problem and why Terry, a no-nonsense Iluko writer who wrote the research-based novel Puraw a Balitok, had to stop this literary project. But we are working on him to continue the contest for the sake of young writers in the language.