TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cecilia Brainard's Selected Short Stories Wins 40th National Book Awards in Short Fiction

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Cecilia Brainard's Selected Short Stories Wins 40th National Book Awards in Short Fiction

Read CNN article "Full List: The Winners of the 40th National Book Awards"
I am grateful that my Selected Short Stories was honored with the 40th National Book Award in the category of Best Book of Short Fiction in English.
The book was quietly released in 2021 when Covid was still causing havoc, and like most books released during the time of pandemic, it was ignored. I am therefore happy that the Manila Circle's Critics and the National Book Board Development found merit in the book.
Thanks to my publisher, University of Santo Tomas Publishing house and the UST folks who have included me in their family: Ailil Alvarez, Ned Parfar, Jack Wigley, Jing Hidalgo, Ralph Galan, and many others.
There is more information about my Selected Short Stories in this link:
The book is available from Lazada and Shopee in the Philippines. Amazon and Barnes and Noble also carry the book.

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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.