Alfred Yuson
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Alfred Yuson | |
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| Born | Alfred A. Yuson 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | Filipino |
Alfred A. Yuson,also known asKrip Yuson(born 1945), is a Filipino author of novels, poetry and short stories.
Career
[edit]Early in his career, Yuson received a writing fellowship to attend the National Writers Workshop inDumaguetein 1968. Yuson also has a Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award and a Catholic Mass Media Award (CMMA) Award for Best Screenplay. He has been a documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter, as well as a book, magazine and newspaper editor and designer. In 1988, he collaborated with cinematographer Ernesto Enrique on the documentaryA Filipino Pilgrimage to Medjugorje,produced by Troika Video Productions,[1]which was broadcast onABS-CBNon March 24, 1988.[2]Yuson was also a Fellow at the International Writing Program in Iowa City, U.S. in 1978; theInternational Poetry Conferenceat theUniversity of Hawaiiin 1979; theCambridge Seminar,University of Cambridge,in 1989; theInternational Writers RetreatatHawthornden CastleinMidlothian,Scotland, in 1990; TheHong Kong International Literary Festivalin 2001 and 2006; and theSydney Writers' Festivalin 2006. He has also participated in many other literary conferences, seminars and festivals in Japan, China,Finland,Scotland,Thailand,Malaysia,South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia andSingapore.
He is a founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council, Creative Writing Foundation, Inc. and Manila Critics Circle, and is currently Chairman of the Writers Union of the Philippines. He also serves as Philippines Editor forMANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing,published by theUniversity of Hawaii.A documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter, he is a board member of the Movie and Television Ratings and Classification Board in thePhilippines.
Awards and nominations
[edit]His works have won several literary distinctions, the most recent of which include thePatnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan(Stalwart of Art and Culture) award from the City ofManilain June 2003, and aRockefeller Foundationgrant for residency at theBellagio Centerin Italy in 2003.
Yuson was conferred with theS.E.A. Write Awardin 1992 for lifetime achievement, and has been inducted to the Hall of Fame of theCarlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
Yuson's "The Music Child" was among 5 works shortlisted for the second (2008)Man Asian Literary Prize,which was announced at aHong Kongceremony on November 13, 2008.[3][4]
Writings
[edit]His bibliography includes the poetry collections:Sea Serpent,(Monsoon Press, 1980),Trading in Mermaids(Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1993),Mothers Like Elephants( Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2000),Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woman(University of the PhilippinesPress, 2002), and the translation,Love's A Vice / BisyoandPag-Ibig: Translations into English of 60 Poems byMike L. Bigornia(National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2004).
References
[edit]- ^Molina, Tony (March 23, 1988)."Channel 2 airs docu on 'A Filipino Pilgrimage to Medjugorje'".Manila Standard.Standard Publications, Inc. p. 10.RetrievedJuly 24,2019.
- ^"Medjugorje Docu".Manila Standard.Standard Publications, Inc. March 24, 1988. p. 10.RetrievedAugust 9,2020.
- ^www.gmanews, 2 Pinoys in shortlist of Man Asian Literary Prize
- ^"showbizandstyle.inquirer.net, RP authors in Asian book prize shortlist".Archived fromthe originalon 23 October 2008.
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- 1945 births
- 20th-century essayists
- 20th-century Filipino poets
- 20th-century Filipino male writers
- 20th-century short story writers
- 21st-century essayists
- 21st-century Filipino poets
- 21st-century male writers
- 21st-century short story writers
- Filipino children's writers
- Filipino editors
- Filipino essayists
- Filipino male poets
- Filipino male short story writers
- Filipino short story writers
- Filipino novelists
- International Writing Program alumni
- Living people
- Palanca Award recipients
- S.E.A. Write Award winners