TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: March 2025

Monday, March 24, 2025

Author Cecilia Brainard Interview by Read Pinoy Philippine National Book Development Board

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

Filipina novelist, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, is interviewed by Read Pinoy of the Philippine National Book Development Board on March 19, 2025. Brainard talks about Filipino and FilAm authors away from the Philippines - what they write about, difficulties they face. Brainard talks about why she has chosen to write about Filipino themes in her novels and fiction.

Interviewers were Lowell Alojado and Catherine Orda. Cecilia thanks them and Marian Louise Abio of NBDB.

The above YouTube link excerpts 19 minutes of the show with her interview.

tags: #readpinoysaradyopilipinas

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.