Angelo R. Lacuesta, who also writes under his nickname Sarge Lacuesta, is a fictionist and novelist, and also writes screenplays and essays. He has written more than ten books and two screenplays, and has won many national awards for his writing. He is president of the Philippine Centre of PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists) International.
His most recent book is the novel
JOY, published by Penguin Random House SEA in 2022. In 2024 he wrote and produced the film “An Errand,” based on a short story he wrote, for the Cinemalaya Film Festival. It has been selected to be part of the Bright Futures section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). His upcoming novel IRÔ (Milflores, 2025) was selected as one of 10 novels to be presented for possible film adaptation at the 2025 Berlinale Film Festival.
