Author's Notebook

Nearly two decades after its publication, Lumbay ng Dila continues to reshape conversations about Philippine literature. In this first part of a two-part series, Genevieve Asenjo reflects on memory, history, place, and language, revealing how her acclaimed novel transforms the personal into the political and the local into something universal.

Genevieve Asenjo discusses literary translation, The Melancholy of the Tongue, and why Philippine literature grows stronger each time a story finds another language.