Louie Mar Gangcuangco

Louie Mar Gangcuangco
Born	(1987-03-26) March 26, 1987 Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Occupation	Novelist, Medicine student
Nationality	Filipino
Notable works	Orosa-Nakpil, Malate
Website
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Louie Mar Gangcuangco is the author of a Filipino novel Orosa-Nakpil, Malate. In 2008, Louie Mar Gangcuangco published his second book, Gee, My Grades Are Terrific: A Student’s Guide to Academic Excellence, a self-help book for students.

Louie Mar Gangcuangco was born on March 26, 1987 in Mandaluyong City, Philippines. He finished his primary education in Montessori de San Juan (MSJ) as the batch valedictorian in 1999. He represented MSJ in several competitions, most notably the Walt Disney Interschool Leadership Competition where he won second runner-up.

He was a kiddie reporter in the morning show, Alas Singko y Medya (ABS-CBN) from 1997 to 2000 where he has featured pertinent issues affecting children and interviewed celebrities including the international pop singer, Aaron Carter. He graduated from Manila Science High School (Masci) in 2003 as the First Honorable Mention, First Meritorious Awardee, Best in English, and Best in Filipino. He has represented Masci in several interschool competitions, notably: National Inventor’s Contest; Children’s Museum and Library Incorporated Impromptu Speech Contest (second place); and The Philippine National Police Impromptu Speaking Contest (third place). He was the Science editor of The Nucleus, the school paper of Manila Science, which was awarded as the third best school paper in the Philippines during his editorship.

He is two years accelerated in college under the Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine (Intarmed) curriculum of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. As a freshman, Louie Mar, together with his teammates Lyle Gomez and Atrio Lopez, won first place in the UP Manila Intercollegiate Debate Tournament, toppling down seniors from different colleges in the university.

Louie Mar had his elective clerkship in Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles from April to May 2008 where he got a performance rating of ‘A’ from four Infectious Disease consultants.

Even as a medical student, Louie finds time to go out and socialize. His night-out’s has inspired him to write his novel, Orosa-Nakpil, Malate, which he self-published in March 2006 at age eighteen. His work was featured in the top-rating TV show, Sharon, in June of the same year. In August 2006, Louie Mar was awarded the Y Idol Award (Youth Idol Award) by Studio 23’s Y Speak. Later that month, the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino conferred a Sertipiko ng Pagpapahalaga for Orosa-Nakpil, Malate. His phenomenal novel is endorsed by prominent people and institutions including the multi-awarded director, Jose Javier “Joey” Reyes, Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan (former DOH secretary) and Dr. Raul Destura of the National Institutes of Health Philippines.

After one year of circulation, Orosa-Nakpil, Malate made it to the Best Sellers List released by National Book Store in April 2007. With him in the list are authors Mitch Albom of One More Day, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro of The Fifth Horseman, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Memories of My Melancholy Whores. The book landed on the Top 8 spot, overtaking international authors Steve Berry and Kiran Desai.

Orosa-Nakpil, Malate, has been featured in several Publications including: Generation Pink Magazine’s The Great Escape Volume 1, Issue 5, page 20 The Flame: The Official Liberal Journal of the Humanities, University of Sto. Tomas Vol. 21, Number 1, July–December 2006, p. 59 Icon Magazine’s Career Issue Volume 2, Issue 4, page 13 The Manila Collegian, The Nightmare Before Christmas Issue, TOMO 20 blg.5 p. 10

In 2008, Louie Mar Gangcuangco published his second book, Gee, My Grades Are Terrific: A Student’s Guide to Academic Excellence, a self-help book for students.

Louie Mar has served as a guest speaker in UP Manila, UP Diliman, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, San Beda, Philippine Normal University, and the American Chamber Foundation Philippines on various topics including homosexuality, HIV-AIDS, and gay literature in the Philippines.

Louie Mar passed the Straight Internal Medicine Internship in the Philippine General Hospital. He will be graduating from the UP College of Medicine in 2010.

sinasabi na hindi naman talaga si louie mar ang nagsulat ng OROSA-NAKPIL MALATE.ang totoong nagsulat ay si ROI GERALD RENDON na nakatira sa BLUMENTRITT STA. CRUZ MANILA

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