Remarkable Filipino writers during the Period of Third Republic
Alfredo Salanga 1948-1988
Alfredo Navarro Salanga was born in Manila. His father was a doctor and he was the eldest of ten children. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo de Manila University. He went on to become a poet, fiction writer, journalist and editor. Alfredo Navarro Salanga, a consistent writer of Philippines Panorama Magazine in his column “Post-PrandalReflections”aptly said it: “darkness in the mind and soul is how some forgotten poet puts it. Its suddenness was so profound that we couldn’t but react to it in any other way.”
Sheila Coronel
Sheila S. Coronel, a PANORAMA staff stalwart, reporting on the state of the media during these times said: it was a year of ferment, and change, of old problems made more oppressive by the new throbbing beat of the times.” For journalists, it was a year loaded with libel charges, lawsuits and seditious trials which they gallantly bore as harassment suits. She began reporting in the Philippines during the twilight of the Marcos dictatorship, when she wrote for the underground opposition press and later for mainstream magazines and newspapers. As Marcos lost power and press restrictions eased, she reported on human rights abuses, the growing democratic movement and the election of Corazon Aquino as president.
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