Antonio M. Abad. La oveja de Nathán: Una novela filipina/Nathan’s Sheep: A Philippine Novel. Translated by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes, with Lilia Ramos de Leon and Edgardo Tiamson. Consultant for Spanish text, Isaac Donoso Jimenez. Makati City: Georgina Padilla y Zóbel, Filipinas Heritage Library, and Ayala Foundation Inc., 2013. 642 pages.

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Excerpt: We are in luck. This year the Premio Zobel Collection recovers the novel of Filipino writer Antonio M. Abad, La oveja de Nathán, in a meticulously prepared bilingual Spanish-English edition by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes and Isaac Donoso. Written in Spanish by Antonio M. Abad (born in 1894 in Barili, Cebu) and published in instalments in the Manila serial La Opinión, it won the Premio Zobel in 1929, which annually was given to the best literary work written in Spanish by a Filipino author.

Recommended Citation

(2014) "Antonio M. Abad. La oveja de Nathán: Una novela filipina/Nathan’s Sheep: A Philippine Novel. Translated by Lourdes Castrillo Brillantes, with Lilia Ramos de Leon and Edgardo Tiamson. Consultant for Spanish text, Isaac Donoso Jimenez. Makati City: Georgina Padilla y Zóbel, Filipinas Heritage Library, and Ayala Foundation Inc., 2013. 642 pages.," Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia: Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol4/iss1/13