Eric Gamalinda is an established Filipino American

Filipino American

Filipino Americans are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipino Americans, often shortened to "Fil-Ams", or "Pinoy",Filipinos in what is now the United States were first documented in the 16th century, with small settlements beginning in the 18th century...

 author. He was an editor, journalist, short-story writer, children’s literature author, poet, and novelist. He published three novels. His novel My Sad Republic

My Sad Republic

My Sad Republic is a 2000 Philippine English-language novel written by Filipino novelist Eric Gamalinda. The novel won for Gamalinda a Philippine Centennial Literary Prize in 1998. The 392-page novel was published by the Philippine Centennial Commission, the University of the Philippines Press,...

 won a Philippine Centennial Literary Prize in 1998 for Best Work written in Philippine English

Philippine English

Philippine English is the variety of English used in the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos. English is taught in schools as one of the two official languages of the country, the other being Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog.English is used in education,...

 during a literary contest sponsored by the Philippine Centennial Commission. His literary works appeared on the pages of Harper’s Magazine and other international literary journals. He edited the Luis H. Francia's anthology of fiction and poetry entitled Flippin': Filipinos On America, an anthology of fiction and poetry.

Novels

• "Planet Waves"
• "Empire of Memory"
• "Confessions of a Volcano"
• My Sad Republic
  My Sad Republic
  My Sad Republic is a 2000 Philippine English-language novel written by Filipino novelist Eric Gamalinda. The novel won for Gamalinda a Philippine Centennial Literary Prize in 1998. The 392-page novel was published by the Philippine Centennial Commission, the University of the Philippines Press,...
  
  
• "People are Strange"

Poetry

• Fire Poem/Rain Poem
• Lyrics From a Dead Language
• Zero Gravity
• Amigo Warfare