Alfredo "Freddie" Navarro Salanga (1948[1]–1988[2]) was a Filipino literary critic,[2] columnist, journalist, novelist, poet, fictionist, editor, and multi-awarded writer.
[1] In 1969, Salanga obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1969.
He was a winner during the 1984–85 USA Annual Salute to the Arts Competition that was sponsored by Triton College in Illinois.
[1] Apart from The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez, Salanga's literary works included the following: The Aglipay Question: Literary and Historical Studies (1982), Commentaries Meditations Messages A Parable Cycles and Confessions (1985), Portraits (1988).
As an editor, Salanga edited the following literature: Rizaliana for Children: Drawings and Folk Tales by Jose Rizal (1984), New Writing from the Philippines (Philippine Studies, 1985), Versus: Philippine Protest Poetry, 1983–1986 (1986), Kamao: Panitikan ng Protesta, 1970–1986 (1987), An Anthology of Poets in Search of God, Posthumous: Turtle Voices in Uncertain Weather: Poems 1980-1988 (CCP, 1989), Chronicles & Dispatches (New Day, 1991), and Buenavista Ventures (Ateneo de Manila University Office of Research and Publications, 1998).