Merlie M. Alunan
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated Silliman UniversitySilliman University
Silliman University is a private research university located in Dumaguete, Philippines. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it was the first American private school to be founded in the country. The University is named after Dr...
with an MA in Creative Writing in 1974.
She teaches at the Creative Writing Center, University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College.
She lives in Tacloban City
Tacloban City
The City of Tacloban is a port city approximately 360 miles southeast of Manila. It is the first in Eastern Visayas to be classified as a Highly Urbanized City. It is the capital of the Philippine province of Leyte and is the largest city in terms of population in Eastern Visayas...
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Awards
- Lillian Jerome Thornton Award for Nonfiction
- Don Carlos Palanca Memorial AwardPalanca AwardsThe Palanca Awards or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is the Philippines' most prestigious and most enduring literary awards and is dubbed as the "Pulitzer Prize" of the Philippines...
for Literature - National Book Award
Works
- Heartstone, Sacred Tree, Anvil, 1993, ISBN 9789712703010
- Amina among the angels, University of the Philippines Press, 1997, ISBN 9789715421508
- Selected poems, University of the Philippines Press, 2004, ISBN 9789715424431
Non-fiction
- Kabilin: 100 Years of Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Centennial Foundation, 1993
Edited
- Fern Garden: An Anthology of Women Writing in the South, Committee on Literature, National Commission on Culture and the Arts, 1998, ISBN 9789719150060
Anthologies
- Songs of ourselves: writings by Filipino women in English, Editor Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz, Anvil Publishing, 1994, ISBN 9789712703560
External links
- Author's blog
- http://fil.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Merlie_M._Alunan