Bienvenido santos autobiography books

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

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

Biography

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Bienvenido N. Santos

Born

in Tondo, Manila, Philippines

March 22, 1911

Died

January 07, 1996

Website

http://www.bensantos.net/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

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Bienvenido N. Santos was born in Tondo, Manila, on March 22, 1911. When Santos started school, the Philippines was already a colony of the United States and instruction was in English. In his early attempts at creative writing, Santos developed an ear for three kinds of communication: Pampango in the songs his mother sang at home; English in the poems and stories his teacher read at school; and Tagalog in the street life of the Tondo slums.

Santos left for America in September 1941 as a pensionado (scholar) of the Philippine Commonwealth government. Thirty years old and an established short story writer in English at home, he enrolled at the University of Illinois in the master's program in English. When war broke out in December, he found hBienvenido N. Santos was born

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Bienvenido N. Santos

Bienvenido N. Santos 1911-1996

 

Born in Tondo, Manila, of Pampango parents from Lubao, Bienvenido N. Santos was a government pensionado to the United States in 1941. During the war years he studied at the University of Illinois, Columbia, and Harvard and served with the Philippine government in exile in Washington, D.C.

In 1946 he returned to the Philippines, taught school and became a university administrator. In 1958 he was a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Writers Workshop in the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. He has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature.

In 1981, his alma mater, the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University in Legazpi City gave him honorary degrees in Letters and Humanities. He was a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Wichita State University from 1973 to 1982, and was awarded an honorary degree in humane le