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N.V.M Gonzalez, an important icon among the Filipino literary community, feels like a fitting way to wrap up Filipino American History Month.
Born in the Philippines in 1915 in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Gonzalez expressed passion for music at a young age. He learned to play the violin and made his own guitars by hand. For college, he attended National University at Manila, Philippines, but did not finish his degree. During his time there, he wrote for the Philippine Graphic and later edited for both Evening News Magazine and Manila Chronicle.
Gonzalez published his first essay in the Philippine Graphic and his first poem was published in 1934. These early publications started Gonzalez’s literary career. He went on the found The Diliman Review and worked as a member on the Board of Advisers of Likhaan: the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center and president of the Philippine Writers’ Association.
His lack of college degree didn’t stop him from pursuing teaching, and he received teaching positions at multiple universities in the
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Autobiography of NVM Gonzalez
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N.V.M. Gonzalez; Philippine Literary Icon
N.V.M. Gonzalez, the 1997 National Artist for Literature of the Republic of the Philippines, a prolific literary icon and the sole Regents’ professor at UCLA last year, has died. He was 84.
Gonzalez, who received his nation’s Centennial Award for Literature in 1998, died Saturday in Quezon City, Philippines, after suffering a stroke Nov. 24, Prosy de la Cruz, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Filipino community, told The Times. Funeral services in the Philippines are scheduled for Saturday and a California memorial service will be scheduled in January.
Known to fans and scholars alike simply as “NVM,” Gonzalez was revered for preserving Filipinos’ cultural roots through his short stories and other writings, which were translated into several languages. When he came to UCLA to teach a graduate seminar on Philippine and Filipino American Literature, the university news magazine “Cross Currents” described him as “the Philippines’ foremost creative writer in English.”
Neal H. Cruz, an avid NVM reader, recently wrote in his column for the P
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