Draft:Adrian Pregonir



Adrian Pete Medina Pregonir (born March 3, 2002) is an award-winning Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, and Filipino writer from Banga, South Cotabato.

Awards

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He has won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Gawad Bienvenido Lumbera, Gawad Rene O. Villanueva, Bantugan sa Panulatan Kinaray-a, and Padya Dungug Kinaray-a for his poetry and essays.

In 2024, he was conferred the Talaang Ginto: Makata ng Taon by the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino for his collection "Sa Muhon ng Iyong Kabaong Maibabaon ang Mga Guho ng Kahapon," which "witnesses, smells, hears, tastes, and almost touches the destruction of the forests and ancestral lands of the indigenous peoples in Mindanao" (dahil sa buong-buo na koleksiyon ng tula na masasaksihan, maaamoy, madidinig, malalasahan, at halos mahahawakan ang pagkawasak ng kagubatan at lupang pamana ng mga katutubo sa Mindanao).

His works have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Liwayway, Dagmay Journal, CCP Ani, Likhaan: A Journal of Philippine Contemporary Literature, Cotabato Literary Journal, among many others.

Revival of Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a Literature

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Along with other Hiligaynon poets in Mindanao, he led the resurgence of Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a literature in Mindanao.

Through his collections such as "Erotika Handumanan," "Kuyaphaw," "Ang Mangangaway sa Butkon sang Pilason nga Pukatod," "Kon ang Paghangup, Paghangup sa Indi Mahangpan," "Lanaw S'Bu" he started to create workshops, talks, and lectures that revolve within the literature written in mother tongue.

Sources

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