Seventy years has to be worth something

Alberto Florentino is a seventy year old writer and publisher. He has seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows in Philippine literature. Known for his work The World is an Apple, Alberto Florentino now lives in the Big Apple after publishing in the Philippines for more than thirty years. For being seventy and keeping on writing, Alberto Florentino is the Pin@y Blog of the Day for the 19th of January 2004.