Edilberto N. Alegre

Edilberto N. Alegre was born in Naujan, Mindoro, but grew up in Victoria, Tarlac. His childhood
in his grandfather’s hometown residence was enriched by a neighborhood of Ilocano, Tagalog, and Pampangueño settlers who must have stirred what would later become his passion and search for the native and indigenous from Luzon to Visayas, Mindanao, and in his foreign sojourns. He obtained his MA in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines and PhD in Japanese Language and Literature from Kyoto University in Japan.