TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Touring New Old Town of Frankfurt #fbm2025

Monday, October 13, 2025

Touring New Old Town of Frankfurt #fbm2025

October 13, 2025

Touring Frankfurt

I'm in Frankfurt Germany for the Frankfurt Book Fair. Specifically I'm here to celebrate 14 translations of my fiction, and to be in panels as part of the Philippine Delegation. The Philippines is the Guest of Honour this year.

But today is a free day and I visited the New Old Town of Frankfurt where I ran into Filipino writers and publishers who are also here for the #frankfurterbuchmesse . Among them are: Danton Remoto, Ige Ramos, Dean Francis Alfar, Anthony John Balisi, Tanya Yuson, Ian Rosales Casocot, Yvette Tan, and others.

I also visited the nearby area displaying a Filipino jeepney, with Filipino eating places, and stage. Business was brisk for a Monday. Talked to some charming people: a German- Filipino family, a Filipina who has lived in Germany since 1980.

I'll be blogging my visit to Frankfurt this year, so please check back.

Anthony Balisi and Cecilia Brainard

Cecilia Brainard and Tanya Yuson

L-r: Danton Remoto, Dean Frances Alfar,, Yvette Tan

Ian Casocot

Cecilia Brainard and Arianne Velasquez

Cecilia Brainard Fiction: The One-Night Stand a t the Frankfurt Book Fair

Cecilia Brainard Fiction: After the Ascension

Tags: #FBM2025 #phlgoh2025 #GoH2025 #ImaginationPeoplestheAir

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.