TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Lunch with F. Sionil Jose and Tessie Jose in Malate

Monday, February 4, 2013

Lunch with F. Sionil Jose and Tessie Jose in Malate

I had lunch with Frankie and Tessie Jose, more formally known as Mr. and Mrs. F. Sionil Jose. I took the opportunity to interview Frankie, so I now have all these gold nuggets in my head about this beloved Philippine National Artist.

Thank you, Frankie for the interview; thank you Frankie and Tessie for the wonderful Indian lunch. Many years ago, you also brought Lina Espina Moore and me to the same restaurant on Padre Faura.

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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.