The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez

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The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez
Book cover for Alfrredo Navarro Salanga's The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez.
AuthorAlfrredo Navarro Salanga
CountryPhilippines
LanguageEnglish, Tagalog
GenreFiction

The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez is a novella written in 1984 by award-winning Filipino author, poet, journalist, and editor,[1] Alfredo “Freddie” Navarro Salanga. It is also known as The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez: A Novella[2] Presented in a bilingual book divided into two parts, the English original version and an accompanying Pilipino version, based on the translation by Romulo A. Sandoval, entitled Ang Pagsisilang kay Hannibal Valdez.[3] It has a foreword written by Virgilio S. Almario.[4]

One of its lead characters is Leon Valdez.[5]

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