TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Picture NVM Gonzalez Centennial Celebration in Los Angeles, California

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Picture NVM Gonzalez Centennial Celebration in Los Angeles, California

This photo is courtesy of Fabricio Expasande-Bouza This was taken at the NVM Gonzalez Centennial Celebration in Echo Park Library last May 21, 2016, a literary event organized by Linda Nietes of Phiippine Expressions. You will have to click on the picture in order to see everyone. Members of the Filipino American community are in the picture. Linda Nietes is in front of the poster. Michael Gonzalez is in the Barong Tagalog in front of me.

The picture below was taken in the mid-1980s in Santa Barbara, California. From l-r: Vince Gotera, Virginia Cerenio, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, and William Oandasan

Read also:

The Centenary of N.V.M. Gonzalez
In Honor of Filipino American Writer N.V.M. Gonzalez

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This is all for now,

Cecilia

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.