author
Balbino B. Nanong
Best known for the Tagalog novel Hiwaga ng Pag-ibig, this early Filipino writer is associated with a 1922 publication that reflects the romance fiction of its time. Very little biographical information appears to be widely documented, which gives the work an added sense of rarity.
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Hiwaga ng Pagibig
by Balbino B. Nanong
About the author
Balbino B. Nanong is known as the author of Hiwaga ng Pag-ibig, a Tagalog novel first published in Manila in 1922. Modern library and ebook records consistently connect his name with that work, and some Philippine ebook sources describe him as a Filipino novelist.
The novel has remained accessible through later reprints and through Project Gutenberg, which has helped preserve Nanong’s place in early Tagalog popular fiction. One Philippine source also notes that Hiwaga ng Pag-ibig was the first book published by the writers' group Panulat Banahaw.
Beyond those publication details, reliable biographical information about Nanong is scarce in the sources I found. No clearly verified portrait image turned up on the author or book pages reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.