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Filipino journalist and novelist who has followed the military and Mindanao since the 1980s; her novel of Sulu was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
2010In print
Below the Crying MountainCriselda Yabes
University of the Philippines Press
A novel of Sulu in the 1970s, of a Tausug family and the war that came to Jolo. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and won the UP Centennial Literary Prize.
2011In print
Peace WarriorsCriselda Yabes
Anvil Publishing
Years on the road with the army in Mindanao and Sulu, and the soldiers who found themselves building schools as often as fighting.
2020In print
The Battle of MarawiCriselda Yabes
Pawikan Press
The siege of Marawi as the people who fought it and lived through it remember it, by a journalist who has followed the military in Mindanao for thirty years.