Ramon Guillermo

Ramon "Bomen" Guillermo was born in 1969 in Manila, Philippines to poet Gelacio Guillermo and art historian Alice Guillermo[3]. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies (Austronestik) from University of Hamburg in Germany. Guillermo teaches in the College of Arts and Letters at UP Diliman where he is the chairman of the Center for International Studies and one of the fellows of the Institute for Creative Writing. In 2018, he was elected as the faculty representative to the Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines, the highest governing body of the University.[2][4][5]

In 2013, he published his first novel entitled Makina ni Mang Turing. The plot of this historical literature revolves around the game of sungka or Southeast Asian mancala. The novel was reviewed by scholar Caroline Hau, noting how the Guillermo has "breached the 'great divide' between ilustrados and 'the masses' that haunts Philippine literature."[1] Aside from his novel and collection of poems, his other works include the translated works of Karl Marx and Walter Benjamin into Filipino and his study of Jose Rizal's writings and the ancient Filipino writing script called Baybayin.[2]

• Ang Diablo sa Filipinas: ayon sa nasasabi sa mga casulatan luma sa Kastila, with Benedict Anderson, Carlos Sardiña Galache, (Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2014).
• Ang Makina ni Mang Turing, (Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 2013).
• Pook at Paninindigan: Kritika ng Pantayong Pananaw, (Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 2009).
• Translation and Revolution: A Study of Jose Rizal's Guillermo Tell, (Manila: Ateneo de Manila Press, 2010).
• Agaw-dilim, Agaw-Liwanag: Mga Tula (Manila: Highchair, 2004).

• Benedict Anderson
• Resil Mojares
• Caroline Hau
• Neferti Tadiar
• Reynaldo Ileto
• Zeus A. Salazar
• Alice Guillermo