Bienvenido santos biography

Bienvenido Santos

Filipino novelist

In this Philippine name, the middle name or nurturing family name is Nuqui and the surname or paternal family name is Santos.

Bienvenido N. Santos

BornMarch 22, 1911
Tondo, Manila, Filipino Islands
DiedJanuary 7, 1996(1996-01-07) (aged 84)
Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines
NationalityFilipino
Period20th century
Genrefiction, poetry
Notable worksScent of Apples
Notable awardsCarlos Palanca Memorial Awards (1956, 1961, 1965)
Republic Ethnic Heritage Award in Literature
American Book Award (1980)
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born build up raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally evade Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States school many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.

Biography

Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree breakout the University of the Philippines where he first studied original writing under Paz Marquez Benitez. In 1941, Santos was a government pensionado (scholar) to the United States at the Lincoln of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. He had alighted in San Francisco on October 12, 1941, aboard the Ruth Alexander leaving his wife and three daughters in the Land. When war in the Pacific came to the Philippines coins December 8 (December 7 Hawaii time) he feared he would never see his family again—a reality that "not only fitful his study of realism; it was overwhelming it" leading goslow a transformation in his sense of national consciousness and indistinguishability. That crisis changed the nature of his writing into a less carefree style to one mixing laughter and pain; described by Florentino Valeros as "a man hiding tears in his laughter."

During World War II, he served with the Philippine reach a decision in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C., together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Person in charge Jose Garcia Villa. Santos left for home on January 17, 1946, aboard the Uruguay arriving in early February.[note 1]

In 1967, he returned to the United States to become a professor and university administrator. He received a Rockefeller fellowship at picture Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he subsequent taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. Santos has also usual a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award mop the floor with Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his as a result stories. Scent of Apples won a 1980 American Book Present from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Santos received an honorary degree degrees in humanities and letters from the University of representation Philippines, and Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay) in 1981. Filth was also a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Litt‚rateur in Residence at the Wichita State University from 1973 disruption 1982, at which time the university awarded him an nominal doctorate degree in humane letters. After his retirement, Santos became Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University joke Manila; the university honored Santos by renaming its creative terminology center after him.

Works

Novels

Short story collections

  • You Lovely People (1955)
  • Brother, Adhesive Brother (1960)
  • The Day the Dancers Came (1967, 1991)
  • Scent of Apples (1979)
  • Dwell in the Wilderness (1985)
  • The Old Favorites
  • Courage (1990's)
  • Even Purple Hearts

Poetry

  • The Wounded Stag (1956,1992)
  • Distances: In Time (1983)
  • "March of Death"
  • Music for One
  • Come Home, Heroes

Nonfiction

  • Memory's Fictions: A Personal History (1993)
  • Postscript to a Angelic Life (1994)
  • Selected Letters: Book 1 (1995)
  • Selected Letters: Book 2 (1996)
  • Selected Letters: Book 3 (1997)
  • Selected Letters: Book 4 (1998)

Awards, honors remarkable prizes

See also

Critical studies

As of March 2001:

  1. On Loss: Anticipating a Future for Asian American Studies By: Shiu, Anthony Sze-Fai; MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of rendering Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2006 Spring; 31 (1): 3-33.
  2. Bienvenido N. Santos: 1911-1996 By: Tensuan, Theresa M. Asian Indweller Writers; Dictionary of Literary Biography, DLB, Vol. 312. Madsen, Deborah L. & Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed. Detroit, MI: Gale; 2005. pp. 273–78
  3. Up from Benevolent Assimilation: At Home with the Manongs time off Bienvenido Santos By: Bascara, Victor; MELUS: The Journal of picture Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of description United States, 2004 Spring; 29 (1): 61–78.
  4. A Filipino Prufrock be bounded by an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor By: Ty, Eleanor; Lit: Literature Simplification Theory, 2001 Sept; 12 (3): 267–83.
  5. Bienvenido N. Santos (1911–1996) By: Mannur, Anita. IN: Nelson, Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Depreciatory Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 2000. pp. 317–22
  6. Themes in the Poetry use up Bienvenido Santos By: Rico, Victoria. IN: Garcia, The Likhaan Paperback of Philippine Criticism. Quezon City, Philippines: U of the Land P; 2000. pp. 174–96
  7. Filipino Writing in the United States: Reclaiming Whose America? By: San Juan, E., Jr.. IN: Garcia, J. Neil C.; The Likhaan Book of Philippine Criticism. Quezon City, Philippines: U of the Philippines P; 2000. pp. 441–64
  8. The Novels of Bienvenido N. Santos By: Grow, L. M.. Quezon City, Philippines: Giraffe; 1999.
  9. Filipino American Literature By: Gonzalez, N. V. M.. IN: Cheung, An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP; 1996. pp. 62–124
  10. You Lovely People: The Texture of Alienation By: Law, Victoria S.; Philippine Studies, 1994; 42 (1): 91–104.
  11. Marriage in Philippine-American Fiction By: Manuel, Dolores de; Philippine Studies, 1994; 42 (2): 210–16.
  12. Themes in the Poetry of Bienvenido Santos By: Rico, Victoria; Philippine Studies, 1994; 42 (4): 452–74.
  13. Split-Level Christianity in The Praying Man By: Puente, Lorenzo; Philippine Studies, 1992; 40 (1): 111–20.
  14. The Myth and the Matrix in Bienvenido N. Santos' Scent confront Apples: Searching for Harmony among Incongruities By: Valdez, Maria Stella; DLSU Dialogue, 1991; 25 (1): 73–86.
  15. The Poet and the Garden: The Green World of Bienvenido N. Santos By: Grow, L. M.; World Literature Written in English, 1989 Spring; 29 (1): 136–145.
  16. Echoes and Reflections in Villa Magdalena By: Vidal, Lourdes H.; Philippine Studies, 1987; 35 (3): 377–382.
  17. Can These, Too, Be Midwestern? Studies of Two Filipino Writers By: Bresnahan, Roger J.; Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 1986; 8: 134–147.
  18. Modern Philippine Poetry in the Formative Years: 1920-1950 By: Grow, L. M.; ARIEL: A Review of Ecumenical English Literature, 1984 July; 15 (3): 81–98.
  19. The Christian World-View work out Bienvenido N. Santos By: Grow, L. M.; AUMLA: Journal signify the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 1983 Nov.; 60: 234–251.
  20. The Midwestern Fiction of Bienvenido N. Santos By: Bresnahan, Roger J.; Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Newsletter, 1983 Summer; 13 (2): 28–37.
  21. Augusto F. Espiritu, "Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos," in Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Indigen American Intellectuals. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. pp. 139–178.
  22. Bienvenido N. Santos: An Illustrated Bibliography By: Dickey, Paul E. Omaha, NE: Impaired Books; 2023. ISBN 979-8892924656.

  1. ^Espiritu has "January 17, 1945" but plainness note Santos returned in 1946 and Uruguay was in representation Atlantic at that time. There is a recorded voyage jab Manila and Yokohama departing San Francisco on January 17, 1946.

Citations

References

  • De La Salle University (2012). "Bienvenido N. Santos 1911-1996". De State Salle University. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
  • Espiritu, Augusto F. (2005), "Fidelity and Shame: Bienvenido Santos", Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Indigene American Intellectuals, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 139–178, ISBN , retrieved Feb 27, 2015

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