Writer Merlinda Bobis in "Kuwentuhan" lecture
QUEZON CITY - LIKHAAN: The U.P. Creative Writing Center in cooperation with the College of Arts and Letters, will feature award-winning writer and poet Merlinda Bobis in its Writers' Kuwentuhan Reading Series. Bobis will conduct a performance/lecture called "Border Lover: Reading Between Two Lovers," on February 15, Friday, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at the Vargas Museum lobby.
    A former teacher of literature at the De La Salle University, Bobis is now based in Australia. She has won national awards for her poetry - both in English and in Filipino. Her first collection of short stories, White Turtle, published by De La Salle University, has been published under the title The Kissing by Aunt Lute in the United States.
    Bobis' poems and short stories have appeared in Australian and Philippine journals and magazines. She is the author of a set of plays, War Trilogy: the first play, Ms. Serena Serenata, was performed at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theater in 1997; the second, Rita's Lullaby, won the Ian Reed Radio Drama prize in 1995 and was produced and broadcast on ABC Radio. Bobis has performed, with dance rendition, excerpts from the third play, Promenade.