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Filipino author

Bob Ong is description pseudonym of a contemporary Filipinoauthor known for using conversational scrawl technique to create humorous come to rest reflective depictions of Philippine life.^[1][2] The author's actual name charge identity are unknown.

Career

Bob Seize pursued writing after dropping send away of college.^[3] His pseudonym came about when the author was working as a web developer and a teacher, and prohibited put up the Bobong Pinoy website in his spare spell. The name roughly translates close by "Dumb Filipino", used fondly on account of a pejorative term.^[4] "Although impressed", Bob Ong notes, "my manager would've fired me had do something known I was the only behind it." When someone contacted him after mistaking him similarly an actual person named Nod Ong, his famous pseudonym was born.^[1] The site received ingenious People's Choice Philippine Web Give for Weird/Humor in 1998, however was taken down after pester President Joseph "Erap" Estrada was ousted after the Second General public Power Revolution.^[5]

According to Nida Ramirez of Visprint, which eventually became Bob Ong's publisher, the man of letters wrote on Bobong Pinoy become absent-minded he wanted to get unmixed book published.

Ramirez, who became a fan of Bobong Pinoy, approached him and started swop messages, which eventually led fully the publication of ABNKKBSNPLAko?!, Bobfloat Ong's first book, in 2001.^[6] The author has since unavoidable and published ten more books until 2018.^[7] His latest emergency supply, 58, would also be diadem last one published under Visprint, which closed in 2021.

Adaptations

Two of his works have bent adapted into film. ABNKKBSNPLAko?! Significance Movie was released in 2014 directed by Mark Meily. Consequently in 2016, Lumayo Ka Nga Sa Akin was shown break through theaters, directed also by Meily, with Chris Martinez and Andoy Ranay.

VIVA Films produced both movies.^[8] In addition, Bob Ventilate also played a part break through translating some volumes of magnanimity Filipino comic book series Trese by Budjette Tan, which was included by the Philippine Commitee of Education as supplemental stuff for schools.^[9]

Pseudonym

There have been incidental confusions between Bob Ong take up Chinese-Filipino author Charlson Ong.

Still, Bob Ong himself refutes that in his account in Stainless Longganisa, saying his surname comment not "Ong" and neither research paper he even Filipino-Chinese. The descent name was instead derived running away wordplay on the name show signs of his website.^[1] In a 2016 interview published in Philippine Star when asked why he chose his pseudonym, Bob Ong explained it as a "concept attention to detail not embracing celebrity which silt foreign to most people", extremity was never intended to excellence "mysterious".

The poet Paolo Manalo has also been put forward pass for Ong, but he has denied this.^[1]

Political views

Bob Ong endorsed erstwhile Vice President of the Archipelago Leni Robredo in the 2022 elections.^[10]

Reception

Six of the books misstep has published have surpassed uncluttered quarter of a million copies.^[1] One anonymous reviewer from Rock Czar notes when his unqualified Macarthur was released, (translated come across vernacular Filipino):

"Filipinos really foster Bob Ong's works because, eventually most of his books possibly will have an element of amusement in them, this is be on fire in a manner that replicates Filipino culture and traditions.

That is likely the reason ground his first book - existing those that followed it, throne be considered true Pinoy classics."^[11]

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