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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 letters upon his retirement.

In late 1986 to 1987, he was a Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University.

His works include the following:

Novels

• The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor
• Brother My Brother
• The Praying Man
• The Volcano
• Villa Magdalena
• What the Hell For You
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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.

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Bienvenido Santos

Filipino novelist

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Bienvenido N. Santos
Born	March 22, 1911 Tondo, Manila, Filipino Islands
Died	January 7, 1996(1996-01-07) (aged 84) Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines
Nationality	Filipino
Period	20th century
Genre	fiction, poetry
Notable works	Scent of Apples
Notable awards	Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (1956, 1961, 1965) Republic Artistic Heritage Give in Literature American Book Grant (1980) Guggenheim Pillar Fellowship

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