Angelo Rodriguez Lacuesta (a. k. a. Sarge Lacuesta) is a Filipino author, and winner of several awards for his short stories, including the Philippine Graphic Award, the Palanca Memorial Award and the NVM Gonzalez Awards. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created His first collection of short stories, Life Before X and Other Stories, published in 2000 by the [University of the Philippines Press], won the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award and the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. His second collection, White Elephants: stories, published in 2005 by Anvil Publishing Manila, also won the National Book Award.