Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (National Balagtas Award: a lifetime award for author’s poetry and prose in English, Pilipino, Bikol) from the Unyon ng Manunulat ng Pilipinas (Union of Philippine Writers), 2006

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‘Bobis extracts splendour from burning dread and loss. With delicate, spare prose and silent spaces, this is definitely a thoughtful read, but also an enduring and significant one. The Solemn Lantern Maker is a sumptuously shimmering novel.’
- The Independent Weekly, 2008