{"title":"x-NATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES - NVM Gonzalez","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-bamboo-dancers-filipino-literary-classics-by-n-v-m-gonzalez","title":"The Bamboo Dancers (Filipino Literary Classics) by N.V.M. Gonzalez","description":"\"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. In the Bamboo Dancers... Gonzalez’s characters are discovered rather than explained. They present themselves without comment from the author. Such subtlety and disciplined self-restraint keep Gonzalez’s fiction far from the ordinary “literature of protest” ... Perhaps Gonzalez’s constant attentiveness to the manner of speech, and even to silence, owes much to his culture’s reliance, for unobtrusive communication, on courteous consideration of others... Gonzalez’s craft is perfectly expressive of these Asian aspects of Philippine folkways. - Leonard Casper, Critical Survey of Long Fiction\" -Excerpts from the publisher's website.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNVM Gonzalez was born in the island of Romblon, Philippines in 1915. Besides three novels and five collections of short stories to date (as of this writing, when The Bamboo Dancers was written (1957), -- The Winds of April, 1941; Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories, 1954, A Season of Grace, 1956; The Bamboo Dancers, 1957; Look Stranger on this Island Now, 1963; Selected Stories, 1964 and Mindoro and Beyond, 1979 - he has published an autobiography, Kalutang: A Filipino in the World and a collection of essays, The Father and the Maid. In 1947, he joined the English Department of the University of the Philippines where he taught for eighteen years. He was Visiting Associate Professor of English in 1968-69 at University of Hong Kong. For nearly eighteen years, he was based at California State University, Hayward and held visiting professorships at University of Washington, Seattle and University of California, Los Angeles. NVM Gonzalez had received several awards for his writing, which includes the 1954 Republic Award of Merit for Literature in English, the 1960 Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the 1961 Jose Rizal Pro-Patria Award, the 1989 Gawad Pambansang Akagad bi Balagtas (Balagtas National Award) and the 1990 Gawad Para sa Sining for Literature (Award for the Arts).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1997, N.V.M. Gonzales was named Philippines' National Artist for Literature. When he passed away in 1998, The NVM \u0026amp; Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop (NVMNGWW), a non-profit organization was established to honor the life and works of two remarkable persons who devoted their lives and professional careers to writing and education. Nestor Vicente Madali or simply NVM (1915-1998), a Philippine National Artist in Literature and for whom the writers' workshop is named, was first published when he was sixteen and continued writing and publishing until 1998. Only death kept him from his work and self-proclaimed mission of articulating the Filipino world through literature. Narita (1920-2016), his wife started as a writer as well, and spent most of her professional life as an educator. She has authored several children stories and essay anthologies. Her devotion to NVM, to his career and her four children, made for a partnership in work and life that influenced many students, colleagues, and personal friends. In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight : 12.6 ounces\u003cbr\u003ePaperback : 358 pages\u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 : 971569057-2\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 : 978-97-1-569057-7\u003cbr\u003ePublisher : Bookmark (January 1, 1993)\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: : English\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39567570305190,"sku":"SKU-613","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/73c8a536608b2644af5b7d3926dcec56.jpg?v=1616550761"},{"product_id":"the-bread-of-salt-and-other-stories-by-n-v-m-gonzalez","title":"The Bread of Salt and Other Stories by N.V.M. Gonzalez","description":"The Bread of Salt and Other Stories provides a retrospective selection of sixteen of his short stories (all originally written in English), arranged in order of their writing, from the early 1950s to the present day. This is a powerful collection, both for the unity and universality of the author's subjects and themes and for the distinctive character of his prose style. As Gonzalez remarks in his Preface: \"In tone and subject matter, [these stories] might suggest coming full circle - in the learning of one's craft, in finding a language and, finally, in discovering a country of one's own.\" -Excerpts from the publisher's website. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNVM Gonzalez was born in the island of Romblon, Philippines in 1915. Besides three novels and five collections of short stories to date (as of this writing, when The Bamboo Dancers was written (1957), -- The Winds of April, 1941; Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories, 1954, A Season of Grace, 1956; The Bamboo Dancers, 1957; Look Stranger on this Island Now, 1963; Selected Stories, 1964 and Mindoro and Beyond, 1979 - he has published an autobiography, Kalutang: A Filipino in the World and a collection of essays, The Father and the Maid. In 1947, he joined the English Department of the University of the Philippines where he taught for eighteen years. He was Visiting Associate Professor of English in 1968-69 at University of Hong Kong. For nearly eighteen years, he was based at California State University, Hayward and held visiting professorships at University of Washington, Seattle and University of California, Los Angeles. NVM Gonzalez had received several awards for his writing, which includes the 1954 Republic Award of Merit for Literature in English, the 1960 Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the 1961 Jose Rizal Pro-Patria Award, the 1989 Gawad Pambansang Akagad bi Balagtas (Balagtas National Award) and the 1990 Gawad Para sa Sining for Literature (Award for the Arts). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1997, N.V.M. Gonzales was named Philippines' National Artist for Literature. When he passed away in 1998, The NVM \u0026amp; Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop (NVMNGWW), a non-profit organization was established to honor the life and works of two remarkable persons who devoted their lives and professional careers to writing and education. Nestor Vicente Madali or simply NVM (1915-1998), a Philippine National Artist in Literature and for whom the writers' workshop is named, was first published when he was sixteen and continued writing and publishing until 1998. Only death kept him from his work and self-proclaimed mission of articulating the Filipino world through literature. Narita (1920-2016), his wife started as a writer as well, and spent most of her professional life as an educator. She has authored several children stories and essay anthologies. Her devotion to NVM, to his career and her four children, made for a partnership in work and life that influenced many students, colleagues, and personal friends. In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItem Weight : 10.4 ounces \u003cbr\u003ePaperback : 224 pages \u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 : 029597275-0 \u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 : 978-02-9-597275-6 \u003cbr\u003eProduct Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches \u003cbr\u003ePublisher : University of Washington Press (May 15, 2011) \u003cbr\u003eLanguage: : English","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Hardbound","offer_id":40622329004198,"sku":"SKU-614","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softbound","offer_id":40622329036966,"sku":"SKU-615","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/c67618dfb3edbd59eafbd091e2596158.jpg?v=1616550763"},{"product_id":"seven-hills-away-and-other-stories-by-n-v-m-gonzalez-out-of-print","title":"Seven Hills Away and Other Stories by N.V.M. Gonzalez (Out of Print)","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOut of print title.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe offer a free Search Service for this title. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmail us: info@philippinebookshop.com if interested so that we can include your name in the list. When our Book Scouts are able to find the title, we will let you know accordingly. However, we can not guarantee when exactly it will be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book really started NVM's passion with the art of writing. Swallow Press in Denver, Colorado, first printed the book in 1947. Professor Alan Swallow believe that these short stores about the Philippine life were worth sharing with American readers. The first to appreciate this slim volume of short stories was the Director of Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr Charles Fahs. He came to the Philippines and sought out NVM who was then editor of the Evening News Magazine. In 1949 NVM was named the first Filipino fellow of the Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. NVM did not try to earn a degree. He wanted instead to meet with writers and critics teaching in selected universities in the U.S. He started in Stanford University and met Wallace Stegner and Katherine Porter. His two classmates in Stanford, Ed Loomis (University of Santa Barbara) and Bob Williams (of California State University, Hayward) were later responsible in asking NVM to go to the U.S. to teach. When NVM came home in 1950, he started to teach creative writing in University of Santo Tomas, Philippine Women's University, and University of the Philippines.\" Narita M. Gonzalez U.P. Diliaman, 2001 -Excerpts from the publisher's website. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNVM Gonzalez was born in the island of Romblon, Philippines in 1915. Besides three novels and five collections of short stories to date (as of this writing, when The Bamboo Dancers was written (1957), -- The Winds of April, 1941; Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories, 1954, A Season of Grace, 1956; The Bamboo Dancers, 1957; Look Stranger on this Island Now, 1963; Selected Stories, 1964 and Mindoro and Beyond, 1979 - he has published an autobiography, Kalutang: A Filipino in the World and a collection of essays, The Father and the Maid. In 1947, he joined the English Department of the University of the Philippines where he taught for eighteen years. He was Visiting Associate Professor of English in 1968-69 at University of Hong Kong. For nearly eighteen years, he was based at California State University, Hayward and held visiting professorships at University of Washington, Seattle and University of California, Los Angeles. NVM Gonzalez had received several awards for his writing, which includes the 1954 Republic Award of Merit for Literature in English, the 1960 Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the 1961 Jose Rizal Pro-Patria Award, the 1989 Gawad Pambansang Akagad bi Balagtas (Balagtas National Award) and the 1990 Gawad Para sa Sining for Literature (Award for the Arts). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1997, N.V.M. Gonzales was named Philippines' National Artist for Literature. When he passed away in 1998, The NVM \u0026amp; Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop (NVMNGWW), a non-profit organization was established to honor the life and works of two remarkable persons who devoted their lives and professional careers to writing and education. Nestor Vicente Madali or simply NVM (1915-1998), a Philippine National Artist in Literature and for whom the writers' workshop is named, was first published when he was sixteen and continued writing and publishing until 1998. Only death kept him from his work and self-proclaimed mission of articulating the Filipino world through literature. Narita (1920-2016), his wife started as a writer as well, and spent most of her professional life as an educator. She has authored several children stories and essay anthologies. Her devotion to NVM, to his career and her four children, made for a partnership in work and life that influenced many students, colleagues, and personal friends. In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback: 68 pages \u003cbr\u003eISBN-10 : 971542315-9 \u003cbr\u003eISBN-13 : 978-97-1-542315-1 \u003cbr\u003ePublisher : The University of the Philippines Press (January 1, 2001)","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39567571320998,"sku":"SKU-619","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/51cb89fc98df1222ad664eff9e5d917e.jpg?v=1616550771"},{"product_id":"a-season-of-grace-filipino-literary-classics-by-n-v-m-gonzalez","title":"A Season of Grace (Filipino Literary Classics) by N.V.M. 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When he passed away in 1998, The NVM \u0026amp; Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop (NVMNGWW), a non-profit organization was established to honor the life and works of two remarkable persons who devoted their lives and professional careers to writing and education. Nestor Vicente Madali or simply NVM (1915-1998), a Philippine National Artist in Literature and for whom the writers' workshop is named, was first published when he was sixteen and continued writing and publishing until 1998. Only death kept him from his work and self-proclaimed mission of articulating the Filipino world through literature. Narita (1920-2016), his wife started as a writer as well, and spent most of her professional life as an educator. She has authored several children stories and essay anthologies. Her devotion to NVM, to his career and her four children, made for a partnership in work and life that influenced many students, colleagues, and personal friends. In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. 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Only death kept him from his work and self-proclaimed mission of articulating the Filipino world through literature. Narita (1920-2016), his wife started as a writer as well, and spent most of her professional life as an educator. She has authored several children stories and essay anthologies. Her devotion to NVM, to his career and her four children, made for a partnership in work and life that influenced many students, colleagues, and personal friends. In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. 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For nearly eighteen years, he was based at California State University, Hayward and held visiting professorships at University of Washington, Seattle and University of California, Los Angeles. NVM Gonzalez had received several awards for his writing, which includes the 1954 Republic Award of Merit for Literature in English, the 1960 Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the 1961 Jose Rizal Pro-Patria Award, the 1989 Gawad Pambansang Akagad bi Balagtas (Balagtas National Award) and the 1990 Gawad Para sa Sining for Literature (Award for the Arts). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1997, N.V.M. Gonzales was named Philippines' National Artist for Literature. When he passed away in 1998, The NVM \u0026amp; Narita Gonzalez Writers' Workshop (NVMNGWW), a non-profit organization was established to honor the life and works of two remarkable persons who devoted their lives and professional careers to writing and education. Nestor Vicente Madali or simply NVM (1915-1998), a Philippine National Artist in Literature and for whom the writers' workshop is named, was first published when he was sixteen and continued writing and publishing until 1998. Only death kept him from his work and self-proclaimed mission of articulating the Filipino world through literature. Narita (1920-2016), his wife started as a writer as well, and spent most of her professional life as an educator. She has authored several children stories and essay anthologies. Her devotion to NVM, to his career and her four children, made for a partnership in work and life that influenced many students, colleagues, and personal friends. In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. 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In honoring NVM and Narita, the Workshop hopes to continue their good work in supporting and encouraging fiction and nonfiction writing as an expression of life and culture, beyond its communicative functions, but also as a link to each other, as Filipinos scatter throughout the globe in diaspora, so that their sources of inspiration and the purpose of culture are remembered and honored and inscribed in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. 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His books, however, are not widely available in this country. \"The Bread of Salt and Other Stories\" provides a retrospective selection of sixteen of his short stories (all originally written in English), arranged in order of their writing, from the early 1950s to the present day.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a powerful collection, both for the unity and universality of the author's subjects and themes and for the distinctive character of his prose style. As Gonzalez remarks in his Preface: \"In tone and subject matter, [these stories] might suggest coming full circle - in the learning of one's craft, in finding a language and, finally, in discovering a country of one's own.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGonzalez has traveled widely and has taught the writer's craft in various countries. Nonetheless, his primary metaphor is his colonial island homeland, and his stories are peopled with the farmers and fishermen, the schoolteachers and small-town merchants, \"the underclass who constitute the majority in all societies.\" He portrays, in the men, women, and children of the peasantry, an ordinary and enduring people who live lives of stark dignity against a backdrop of forgotten and unknown gods. A broad humanity suggests itself: \"This feeling of having emerged out of a void, or something close to it, is not uncommon, and we face our respective futures predisposed, by an innocence, to prayer and hope.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eColonization, Gonzalez feels, has created in Filipinos \"a truly submerged people.\" The stories in The Bread of Salt explore this rich vein at several levels, from the river-crossed wilderness of the kaingin farmers, stoic in the hard face of nature; to the commercial centers of the town dwellers, cut off from the mythic animism of the land; to the America of the contemporary sojourner, exiled from the old ways without the guidance of new traditions. Gonzalez writes: \"It was in America that I began to recognize my involvement in the process of becoming a new person... of trying to shed my skin as a colonial.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGonzalez's social commentary is implicit throughout his stories. His message is humane, moral, tellingly accurate, and gently ironic; he is neither sentimental nor doctrinaire. His narratives are presented without intrusive explanation, invoking instead the reader's own powers of contemplation and discovery. His strong prose style, spare yet lyrical suggests the cadences of Philippine oral narrative traditions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach of these sixteen tales is a small masterpiece. The language and its imagery, the characters and their aspirations, all connect powerfully with the reader and serve to illuminate the dreams of exiles and colonials, suggesting what it was like, as a Filipino, to witness the endless interacting of cultures.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Philippine import. Limited copies available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9715421865\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 204\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: University of the Philippines Press (1998)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English","brand":"Philippine Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40622371897510,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/0785\/3478\/products\/8298073.jpg?v=1625717182"}],"url":"https:\/\/philippine-bookshop.myshopify.com\/collections\/national-artists-of-the-philippines-nvm-gonzalez.oembed","provider":"Philippine  Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}