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Filip Batkoski (Bata Press) — Publisher Cecilia Brainard Foreign Translations

September 17, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

Filip Batkoski On October 17, 2025, at 10 am, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, six international publishers and I will gather at the Pilipinas Stage, Philippine Stand Hall 5.1 A95 & B95 to celebrate the translations they have done of my fiction.To honor these publishers who are working hard to finish their translations for FBM25, I'm going to highlight each one of them in my blog. I'll be posting … [Read more...] about Filip Batkoski (Bata Press) — Publisher Cecilia Brainard Foreign Translations

I am a daughter of the Philippines and an adopted daughter of America. I have also traveled to many places so I am also a daughter of the Earth. My experiences have found their way into my stories, which try to depict characters caught in important moments in their lives, situations that force them to act, make decisions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dominant Western one, thus my interest in history, culture, and setting. But my characters carry my stories; they are the most important in my story-telling. I have to dive deep into them to understand their humanity – their goodness as well as their badness, their beauty as well as their ugliness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I understand where they are going. Just like us.

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Filip Batkoski (Bata Press) — Publisher Cecilia Brainard Foreign Translations

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