https://images.app.goo.gl/P3t361SPnTQ4RSBL9Jose Yap Dalisay Jr. is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and screenwriting, including 16 Palanca Awards
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He was born in Romblon in January 15, 1954. He completed his primary education at La Salle Green Hills, Philippines in 1966 and his secondary education at the Philippine Science High School in 1970. He dropped out of college to work as a newspaper reporter. He also wrote scripts mostly for Lino Brocka, the National Artist of the Philippines for
Theater and Film. Dalisay returned to school and earned his B.A. English (Imaginative Writing) degree, cum laude from the University of the Philippines in 1984. He later received an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1991 as a Fulbright scholar.
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Dalisay has authored more than 30 books since 1984. Six of those books have garnered National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle. In 1998, Dalisay made it to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Centennial Honors List as one of the 100 most accomplished Filipino artists of the past century. Among his numerous books are Oldtimer and Other Stories, Sarcophagus and Other Stories, Killing Time in a Warm Place, Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig, Penmanship and Other Stories, The Island, Pagsabog ng Liwanag/Aninag, Anino, Mac Malicsi, TNT/Ang Butihing Babae ng Timog, The Lavas: A Filipino Family, The Best of Barfly, The Filipino Flag, 20 Man Overboard Journeys with Light: The Vision of Jaime Zobel Selected Stories and "The Knowing Is in the Writing: Notes on the Practice of Fiction"
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Dalisay has won 16 Palanca Awards in five genres. For winning at least five First Prize awards, he was elevated to the Palanca Hall of Fame in 2000.
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He has also garnered five Cultural Center of the Philippines awards for playwriting, FAMAS, URIAN, Star and Catholic Mass Media awards and citations for his screenplays. He also chaired the 1992 ASEAN Writers Conference, in Penang, Malaysia. He was named one of The Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of 1993 for his creative writing. In 2005, he received the Premio Cervara di Roma in Italy for extensively promoting Philippine literature overseas. In 2007, his second novel, Soledad's Sister, was shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong
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After serving for three years as English and Comparative Literature Department Chair, Dalisay assumed the post of Vice President for Public Affairs of the U.P. System from May 2003 to February 2005; he returned to the post in February 2017 and retired in January 2019. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of English and creative writing at the College of Arts and Letters, U.P. Diliman, where he also coordinated the creative writing program. He was Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing from 2008 to 2017. Aside from his weekly Arts & Culture column for the Philippine Star, he wrote political and social commentary for the newsmagazine Newsbreak and the San Francisco-based Filipinas magazine
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"Fiction redeems and saves the writer as much as it exalts the reader." - Jose Dalisay
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"Our lives, and certainly our learning, would not be completer without some appreciation of the humanities." - Jose Dalisay
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