Background
He was born on August 25, 1975 in Cebu City, Philippines.
He was born on August 25, 1975 in Cebu City, Philippines.
University of San Carlos.
He is a fine arts graduate from the University of San Carlos, Philippines. He has published two books of poetry, Dili Tanang Matagak Mahagbong (2008) and Minugbo Alang sa Mugbo og Kalipay (2009). In 1999, Durado was the recipient of the Emmanuel Lacaba Prize for Cebuano poetry by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
He was also awarded the Outstanding Young Cebuano Writer by the Faigao Foundation and Cebuano Studies Center in 2002 and Writer of the Year Award by BATHALAD literary group in 2012.
Durado helped launch and redesigned more than a dozen magazine and newspaper titles in the Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, and had served as speaker to design conferences in the United States, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines.