TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Cecilia Brainard Talks About Her Novel The Newspaper Widow and More

Friday, September 27, 2024

Cecilia Brainard Talks About Her Novel The Newspaper Widow and More - video link

Cecilia Brainard Talks about Her Novel The Newspaper Widow and More -

Excerpt from the Frankfurt Book Fair, LitProm, and NBDB Webinar "Glimpse into Writing and Publishing in the Philippines with Cindy Wong, Sarge Lacuesta, Renato Tranquilino, Mara Coson, Carla de Guzmna, Ned Parfan, and Cecilia Brainard. Moderator is Julian Fuchs of the Goethe-Institut Philippinen.

The Webinar occurred on September 24, 2024. This excerpt is courtesy of LitProm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMHuZzswFc

THE NEWSPAPER WIDOW is a part-detective, part-historical novel, set in the Philippines in 1909. This unique literary mystery reveals a lot about Philippine history, culture and society. It is published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House and PALH.

#frankfurterbuchmesse #Frankfurtbookfair #goethe-institut , Litprom E.V. National Book Development Board of the Philippines, NBDB

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.