I attended a luncheon for Mr. and Mrs. F. Sionil Jose, attended by: Jobers Bersales, Resil Mojares, Henry Go, Erma Cuizon, Hope Yu, Mayen Tan. Topics included literature, history, personalities, and more -- it was a 3 1/2 hour lunch, followed by a photo shoot. Here are some pictures:
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author of 10 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Vigan and Other Stories, and Out of Cebu: Essays and Personal Prose. She edited four books, co-edited six books, and co-authored a novel, Angelica's Daughters.
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 received several travel grants from the USIS.
She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She teaches creative writing at the Writers Program at UCLA-Extension.
Mactan, 50 Years Ago And Now By Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Published in Positively Filipino, September 27, 2017 (Click here to read PF)...
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