Samut-Samot Mga Henyo at Imbentor

By Norma Hennessy

This book titled  Samut-Samot Mga Henyo at Imbentor - Si Marie at si Albert is the fourth part of an anthology in Tagalog that was initially published in print with the title "Samut-Samot sa Punog Haligi."  Text content of the full volume has a total of 190,340 words.  The book contains 444 pages with 25 story sub titles, 49 illustrations, 4 cartographs and 1 planet diagram.  The content was originally written in another Philippine language - Ilocano and published in a book with the title "Samut-samot iti Tarikayo" (Cobwebs in Wooden Pillar).  Following the Ilocano book publication, the narratives were put out in Ilocano and Tagalog podcasts under the title "Kuwentong Pilipino sa Tagalog at Ilocano."  The original full volume in Tagalog were Tagalog podcast scripts which had since been re-written into printbook format under the title "Samut-Samot sa Punong Haligi."  As an ebook publication, the original full volume is partitioned into several  separate books with each having an individual title.  This book "Samut-Samot mga Henyo at Imbentor" contains biographical accounts and narratives about Marie Curie and Albert Einstein.  

• Language: Tagalog
• Publisher: Norma Hennessy
• Release date: May 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224736645

Norma Hennessy

NORMA B.  HENNESSY is an author, journalist, artist, translator and radio broadcaster based in South Australia.  She and her family permanently moved from the Philippines to Australia in 1997.  She has authored and co-authored several non-fiction-books.  She writes in English and in two Philippine languages – Pilipino (Tagalog) and her 'mother tongue' Ilocano. Her first book 'A Journey in Antipodean Land' published in 2004 was a historical account based on her research about the early Filipino settlers in Australia. She co-authored a number of Filipino community books in the years that followed.   She published her first Ilocano book in 2022 (Samut-samot iti Tarikayo")- an anthology of stories about historic figures and events. She also published a Tagalog version of the book and both versions have been put out online in podcast format under the title "Mga Kuwentong Pilipino sa Tagalog at Ilocano."   Her two non-fiction English works: "The Last Spirit Child" and "Seekers of Destiny" were simultaneously released in 2022.  She writes a regular column in the Philippine Community Herald Newspaper in Sydney, NSW.  Norma was a free lance correspondent and stringer for print media and radio outfits from 1998 until 2020. She is also an award-winning artist. Some of her works can be viewed at online art galleries via search engine access. In 2023, she published a trilingual book on classic poetry titled "Timeless" consisting of historical classics that she translated into Tagalog and Ilocano.