The Bread of Salt and Other Stories by N.V.M. Gonzalez
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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.
About the Author
NVM 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).
In 1997, N.V.M. Gonzales was named Philippines' National Artist for Literature. When he passed away in 1998, The NVM & 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.
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 029597275-0
ISBN-13 : 978-02-9-597275-6
Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches
Publisher : University of Washington Press (May 15, 2011)
Language: : English
About the Author
NVM 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).
In 1997, N.V.M. Gonzales was named Philippines' National Artist for Literature. When he passed away in 1998, The NVM & 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.
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 029597275-0
ISBN-13 : 978-02-9-597275-6
Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.5 inches
Publisher : University of Washington Press (May 15, 2011)
Language: : English