This is an early announcement, but mark your calendars because this is a great opportunity to listen to comprehensive talks and readings by two veteran Filipino and Filipino American writers (Cecilia Brainard & Paulino Lim Jr) discuss their writings and their craft. Join us to learn more about Philippine and Philippine-American Literature!
AFTERNOON WITH FILIPINO AUTHORS
CECILIA BRAINARD & PAULINO LIM Jr.
Sat. May 26, 2018, 3 p.m.
Los Angeles Public Library, Meeting Room A
630 W. 5th Street, LA, CA 90071
Cecilia Brainard and Paulino Lim will talk about their experiences as Filipino authors in America. They will also read from their works, and there will be book signing. The International Languages Department of the Los Angeles Public Library hosts this free literary event.
BIOS of Speakers:
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the award-winning author and editor of twenty books, including the novels: When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalen; and short story collections: Vigan and Other Stories, Acapulco at Sunset and Other Stories, Woman With Horns and Other Stories.
Cecilia co-edited six other books and she co-authored a novel, Angelica's Daughters, a Dugtungan Novel.
Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.
Cecilia has received several awards including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines, and others.
She has lectured and performed in worldwide literary arts organizations and universities, including UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Beyond Baroque, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others.
Aside from writing and editing, Cecilia publishes fine literature under the imprint of Philippine American Literary House (
Palhbooks.com).
Paulino Lim Jr. is a professor emeritus of English at California of State University, Long Beach. He is a recipient of the 2016 Presidential Award for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas—for his fiction and scholarly essays that are constructive criticisms of the political, social, and religious problems in the Philippines. Also in 2016, his alma mater, the University of Santo Tomas, conferred upon him a lifetime achievement honor—the Parangal Hagbong Award—for significant contributions to Philippine literature. He is the author of a scholarly monograph on Byron, dramas, three anthologies, a quartet of political novels, and the novel Death of the English Zen Professor. His latest work is soon-to-be released by Ateneo de Naga University Press, Spots of Time: Memoir of a Mind.
