LITERATURE
Genevieve Asenjo
Genevieve L. Asenjo is a Filipino poet, novelist, translator and literary scholar in Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon and Filipino and an associate Professor at De La Salle University in Manila.
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ANTIQUE, PHAWARDS:
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in Hiligaynon, Juan C. Laya Prize for Excellence in Fiction in a Philippine LanguageARTIST INFO
Genevieve L. Asenjo is a Filipino poet, novelist, translator and literary scholar in Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon and Filipino and an associate Professor at De La Salle University in Manila. In 2010, Asenjo founded Balay Sugidanun (The House of Storytelling). Her first novel, Lumbay ng Dila, (tr. The Melancholy of the Tongue, C&E/DLSU, 2010) received a citation for the Juan C. Laya Prize for Excellence in Fiction in a Philippine Language in the National Book Award.
In 2009, she spent six months in Seoul as Overseas Writing Fellow sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of South Korea.In 2012, Asenjo participated in the International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency of the University of Iowa, made possible by a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State (source 1, source 2).
publications
- taga-uma@manila (National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2005), a collection of short stories in Kinaray-a.
- Pula ang Kulay ng Text Message (University of San Agustin Press, 2006), a collection of poetry in Kinaray-a with translation in Filipino,
- Komposo ni Dandansoy (UST Press, 2007), a collection of her Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winning stories in Hiligaynon with translation in Filipino,
- “After America”[3] (2012), essay in the of the On Going Home series where authors who have spent nearly three months in the U.S. writing, researching, travelling, and interacting with Americans share their experiences and insight on what the process of
returning home was like. - Mabaskog nga Hiligaynon 1, (C&E, 2013), a book of children’s stories accompanied by a teacher’s guide for the Mother Tongue curriculum in the K-12 program of the Philippine government.
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