 His other accomplishments include the translation of the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez, Dylan Thomas, Octavio Paz, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leopold Senghor, Salvatore Quasimodo, Usman Awang, and Rabindranath Tagore.He also translated Renato Constantino's A Past Revisited "(Ang Bagong Lumipas)" in 1997 and served as editor-in-chief of "Diyaryo Filipino" and "Kabayan" broadsheets and "Pilosopong Tasyo" magazine.Recipient of major awards for his poetry and prose, the author presents his third collection of poems.