Antonio Reyes Enriquez
Antonio Reyes Enriquez was born in Barangay Labuan, Zamboanga City (Mindanao Region) in 1936. Enriquez’s parents sent him to a university in Manila so that he could pursue his dream of studying medicine, but he also left after a few years and didn’t graduate. Later, he worked at a variety of occupations, including writing news articles and other features for different newspapers and magazines. In Cotabato, he also started working for a surveying company, where he gained expertise that helped him create the settings and characters for his book “ Surveyors of the Liguasan Marsh”. After receiving an award of a writing fellowship, it brought him to Siliman University and earned a liberal degree in creative writing. The Palanca award is considered as the most prestigious award for literature in the Philippines and in 1982 and 1993, Enriquez won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial grand prize for Literature. Same as in 1996, he was known with the Pambansang A...