Con Arts
Con Arts
Con Arts
"N.V.M."Gonzales
Patricia Nicole E. Monderin
Biography
• wrote for the Philippine Graphic and later edited
for the Evening News Magazine and Manila
Chronicle.
• His first published essay appeared in the Philippine
Graphic and his first poem in Poetry in 1934.
Biography
• made his mark in the Philippine writing community
as a member of the Board of Advisers of Likhaan:
the University of the Philippines Creative Writing
Center, founding editor of The Diliman Review and
as the first president of the Philippine Writers'
Association.
Biography
• attended creative writing classes under Wallace
Stegner and Katherine Anne Porter at Stanford
University.
• On 14 April 1987, the University of the Philippines
conferred him the degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters, honoris causa
Writing
• Specialized in fiction
• Known as NVM Gonzalez
• works depict the trials and avails of the Filipino in
both rural and urban settings
• Uses English Language
• Works have been translated to Filipino, Chinese,
German, Russian, and Indonesian
Literary Works
Look, Stranger, on This
Island Now
Look, Stranger, on This Island Now
• On June 19, 1961, N. V. M. Gonzalez was conferred
by the Republic of the Philippines the Rizal Pro-
Patria Award.
• stories in this book are a testament in appreciation
of that honor.
The Bread of Salt and
Other Stories
The Bread of Salt and Other Stories
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The Bamboo Dancers
The Bamboo Dancers
• In the Philippines, the caste of “untouchables” is
not the impoverished peasant but the elite
leadership, on which society depends so much for
patronage, but from which the masses more
commonly have received indifference, cruelty, and
betrayal of purpose.
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The Winds of April
The Winds of April
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Seven Hills Away
Seven Hills Away
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