ISAGANI R. CRUZ (B.S. Physics, UP Diliman; M.A. English,
Ateneo de Manila University; Ph.D. English, University of Maryland) is the
President of The Manila Times College. He is a former Philippine Undersecretary
for Education and Governor of the National Book Development Board. He is a
Professor Emeritus and a University Fellow of De La Salle University in Manila.
He was the Curriculum Adviser of the Steering Committee on K to 12 of the
Department of Education, the Commission on Higher Education, and the Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority. He has been a professor, a visiting
fellow, or a lecturer at various universities in the Philippines, the United
States, Iran, Japan, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, including the University
of Oxford. He has given lectures or read papers in Australia, China, Germany,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
He heads the Manila Critics Circle, the Filipinas Licensing
Copyright Society, Books for Philippine Schools Foundation, and C&E
Foundation. He helped set up the Philippine Association of Scholarly and
Academic Publishers, the Philippine Journals Online project of the Oxford-based
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP),
and the Philippine E-Journals project of C&E Publishing. He is the former
President of the Philippine Studies Association, the Philippine Fulbright Scholars
Association, Wika ng Kultura at Agham, and the Asia Pacific Writers
Partnership. He is a retired Senior Bibliographer of the Modern Language
Association of America. He has been decorated by the Government of France as a
Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite and by the Ramain family as Honorary
Sultan of Iligan City. He was a Project Director of the Foundation for
Upgrading the Standard of Education and the Program Director of the Philippine
Cultural Education Program of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
He was the Chair of the Commission on Higher Education Technical Panel on
General Education and a member of the Technical Advisory Council of the
Congressional Commission on Science, Technology, and Engineering. He is an
adviser of iCubed.us of Hong Kong and MITIS International School, and a Board
Member of St. Paul University of Iloilo.
He writes novels, plays, essays, biographies, corporate
histories, and short stories in Filipino and English, for which he has won
numerous national and international awards, including the Carlos Palanca
Memorial Awards in Literature Hall of Fame, the Southeast Asian Writers
(SEAWRITE) Award, and the 2010 Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL).
He has written or edited more than seventy books. He writes weekly columns on education and
culture for Philippine Star and Pilipino Mirror. He is a blogger, Facebooker,
Twitter, and Google Plusser.
At first, I signed to work on this author because he seems
familiar to me but when I started to researching him, holy cow.
He is. Yes he is. He is the author of "Ang Tatay Mong
Kalbo". I just watched that play last month, I think. It was cool, full of
humor; I don't want to repeat the same words. Good thing there's a word
"version" because if there isn't, this work would not exist. I don't
know what else can I say, probably because all the words to describe this work
is in one of my blogs already. I hope Miss Eliz will forgive me for choosing
this author because of its convenience to work on, I mean I recently created a
blog for this and now I have to work on it again? Worst, I already have an idea
on how to write a blog for this instead of thinking other words to say. Peace
Miss Eliz, luv u.
Sources: http://isaganicruz.com/
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