TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: JAIME C. LAYA

Saturday, June 9, 2012

JAIME C. LAYA - MAGNIFICAT BOOK LAUNCH

JAIME C. LAYA recently emailed me the following re the book launch of MAGNIFICAT: Mama Mary's Pilgrim Sites. He's one of the contributors, writing about the "Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned" in Santa Ana Church, Manila. I've posted his bio after his email. (The book launch of Magnificat on June 30 is open to the public.)
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Dear Ms. Brainard,

I invited some people from Sta. Ana to the book launch. I hope that's okay. Congratulations on the book!
Jaime Laya

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JAIME C. LAYA is Chairman of Philtrust Bank, Independent Director of various corporations, and Trustee of various educational, charitable and cultural institutions. He holds a B.S.B.A. from the University of the Philippines, M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. (financial management) from Stanford University. He has served as Minister of the Budget, Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, and Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines. He was Action Officer of the Intramuros Administration (1979-86) and Chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (1996-2001). He is now helping in the conservation of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned at Sta. Ana, Manila.

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.