Norbert Mercado

From "A Novelist for Peace" "In this age of revolution, the contemporary writer should utilize the pen for the preservation of peace," Norbert L. Mercado, a Filipino author, stressed. His books present hope to the Filipinos, especially to the "economic exiles" in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan whom he has spent most time with, in their daily struggles. But most of all, his novels lucidly show the futility of war and violence in the resolution of political-economic-class conflicts in the Philippines.