TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: IN HONOR OF FILIPINO AMERICAN WRITER, PAULINO LIM, JR.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

IN HONOR OF FILIPINO AMERICAN WRITER, PAULINO LIM, JR.

Today I'm honoring PAULINO LIM, JR.

Paulino Lim Jr. is a Filipino author of two short story collections and a novel quartet. He was born in 1935 in Camalig, Albay. He is professor emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach. He has a bachelor's and master’s degree from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA). He was a Fulbright lecturer in Taiwan, and visiting professor at De La Salle University in Manila for more than a decade. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant at Indiana University, spent a sabbatical at Göttingen, Germany, and was the first prize winner of the Asiaweek Short Story Competition of 1985.

He is the author of a scholarly monograph, The Style of Lord Byron’s Plays. His other published works include: two short story anthologies (Passion Summer and Other Stories, & Curaçao Cure and Other Stories); a quartet of political novels (Tiger Orchids on Mount Mayon, Sparrows Don’t Sing in the Philippines, Requiem for a Rebel Priest, & Ka Gaby, Nom de Guerre); and two dramas (It’s All in Your Mind, & Ménage Filipinescas).

He has written the following:

Novels

Tiger Orchids on Mount Mayon (New Day Publishers 1990)
Sparrows Don't Sing in the Philippines (New Day Publishers, 1994)
Requiem for a Rebel Priest (New Day Publishers, 1996)
Ka Gaby, Nom de Guerre (New Day Publishers, 2001)

Short Story Collections

Passion Summer and Other Stories (New Day Publishers, 19__)
Curacao Cure and Other Stories (Anvil, 20__)

Monograph

The Style of Lord Byron's Plays (Inst. F. Engl. Sprache U.Literature,Univ. Salzburg, 1973)

Dramas

It's All in Your Mind
Menage Filipenescas

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Bottom Picture, l-r: Cecilia Brainard, Herminia Menez, Paulino Lim, Jr. Helen Brown, Susan Montepio

Read also: Philippine Literature: Filipino and Filipino American Writers

Tags: Filipino writers, Filipino American writers, Philippine writers, Philippine literature

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.