Melchor F. Cichon : an Aklanon Librarian
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Melchor F. Cichon is the Head librarian and concurrently Head of the Readers Services Section of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Miag-ao, Iloilo. He is also a lecturer in management at the College of Management.
Melchor is a poet whose work has been recognized by the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas, from which he received the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas in 2001.
He has promoted Aklanon literature not just through his writing, but also by setting up a website. Now that blogging has become easier than managing a website, Cichon maintains several blogs including Events in My Life, Dawn to Dawn, Profile of Filipino Fisheries Scientists, Fisheries Librarian and Aklanon Literature
Cichon is a recipient of the 2006 Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Grants awarded by the Fray Luis de Leon Creative Writing Institute (FLDCWI), Coordinating Center for Research and Publications of the University of San Agustin. His manuscript is titled Siniad-Siad nga Kaeangitan/Strips of Heaven, a collection of Aklanon haiku with English translations.
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