Jose Dalisay, Jr.

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name = Jose Dalisay, Jr.


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birthplace = Romblon, Philippines
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occupation = Writer
nationality = Filipino
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genre = Fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenplay
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Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (born January 15, 1954) is a Filipino writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenplay, including 16 Palanca Awards.

Early life and education

Dalisay was born in Romblon in 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 journalist after a period of imprisonment when Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972. After his release as a political detainee, 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 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 Ph.D in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1991 as a Fulbright scholar.

Literary career

Dalisay has authored more than 15 books since 1984. Five 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" (Asphodel, 1984; U.P. Press, 2003); "Sarcophagus and Other Stories" (U.P. Press, 1992); "Killing Time in a Warm Place" (Anvil, 1992); "Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig" (U.P. Press, 1993); "Penmanship and Other Stories" (Cacho, 1995); "The Island" (Ayala Foundation, 1996); "Pagsabog ng Liwanag/Aninag, Anino" (U.P. Press, 1996); "Mac Malicsi, TNT/Ang Butihing Babae ng Timog" (U.P. Press, 1997); "The Lavas: A Filipino Family" (Anvil, 1999); "The Best of Barfly" (Anvil, 1997); "The Filipino Flag" (Inquirer Publications, 2004); "Man Overboard" (Milflores, 2005); "Journeys with Light: The Vision of Jaime Zobel" (Ayala Foundation, 2005); "Selected Stories" (U.P. Press, 2005); and "The Knowing Is in the Writing: Notes on the Practice of Fiction" (U.P. Press, 2006).

Editor

Dalisay has also worked extensively as a professional editor. He served as Executive Editor of the ten-volume "Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People" (Manila: Asia Publishing/Reader's Digest Asia [http://www.rdasia.com/rd/rdhtml/splash.jsp] , 1998). His clients have included the Asian Development Bank, the Ayala Foundation, SGV & Co., the National Economic and Development Authority, the Office of the (Philippine) President, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation, among others.

Achievements

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. He has also garnered five Cultural Center of the Philippines awards for playwriting; and "FAMAS", "URIAN", "Star" and "Catholic Mass Media" awards and citations for his screenplays. He also chaired the 1992 ASEAN Writers Conference/Workshop, 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.

He has received Hawthornden Castle, British Council, David T.K. Wong, and Rockefeller (Bellagio) fellowships, and has held the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair at the Ateneo de Manila University; and the Jose Joya, Jorge Bocobo, and Elpidio Quirino professorial chairs at U.P. Diliman. He has lectured on Philippine culture and politics at the University of Michigan, University of Auckland, Australian National University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, St. Norbert College (Wisconsin, U.S.A.), University of East Anglia, University of Rome, London School of Economics, and the University of California, San Diego.

After serving for three years as English and Comparative Literature Department Chair, Dalisay assumed the post of Vice President for Public Affairs of the [http://www.up.edu.ph U.P. System] from May 2003 to February 2005. He is currently a Professor of English and creative writing at the [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~kal/ College of Arts and Letters] , [http://www.upd.edu.ph U.P. Diliman] , where he also coordinates the creative writing program. He is also an Associate for Fiction and Drama at the [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~icw/ U.P. Institute of Creative Writing] . Aside from his column for the Philippine Star, he also writes political and social commentary for the newsmagazine [http://partners.inq7.net/newsbreak/index/index.php Newsbreak] and the San Francisco-based [http://www.filipinasmag.com/Filipinas Filipinas magazine] .

Notable Works

hort stories

* "Oldtimer and Other Stories", 1984
* "Sarcophagus and Other Stories", 1992
* "Penmanship and Other Stories", 1995
* "The Island", 1997
* "Selected Stories", 2005

Novel

* "Killing Time in a Warm Place", 1992
* "Soledad's Sister", 2008

Plays

* "Madilim ang Gabi sa Laot at Iba Pang Mga Dula ng Ligaw na Pag-Ibig", 1993
* "Pagsabog ng Liwanag"/"Aninag, Anino", 1996
* "Ang Butihing Babae ng Timog"/"Mac Malicsi, TNT", 1997

creenplays

More than twenty produced screenplays, including

* "Tayong Dalawa", 1994
* "Miguelito", 1995
* "Saranggola", 1999

Nonfiction

* "The Best of Barfly", 1997
* "The Lavas: A Filipino Family", 1999
* "Man Overboard", 2005

Other books

* (as editor) "Kasaysayan: The Story of the Filipino People" , 1998
* "The Filipino Flag", 2004
* "Journeys with Light: The Vision of Jaime Zobel", 2005

Honors and Awards

* David T.K. Wong Fellowship for Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
* "Chamberlain" Award
* Milwaukee Fiction Award
* American Poets Prize
* Fulbright- Hays Scholarship
* Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, Scotland
* British Council Fellow to Cambridge
* "Word Festival" (Australia)
* "Asia 2000" (New Zealand)
* Centennial Honors for the Arts, Cultural Center of the Philippines
* Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines
* Cultural Center of the Philippines Awards for Literature
* National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle
* "FAMAS" Award for Best Screenplay
* Catholic Mass Media Award for Best Screenplay
* "URIAN" citation for Best Screenplay
* "Star" Awards citation for Best Screenplay
* Palanca Awards for Literature
* Palanca Hall of Fame Winner
* 7th Department of Tourism "Kalakbay" Award for Best Travel Writer
* Fellow, Standard Chartered International Literary Festival, Hong Kong
* [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/fp_winners.html Philippines Free Press Awards]
* Philippine Graphic Awards
* U.P. President's Award for Outstanding Publications
* Writing fellow, 20th Dumaguete National Writers' Workshop (1981)
* Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair, Ateneo de Manila University
* Jose Joya, Jorge Bocobo, and Elpidio Quirino Professorial Chairs at the U.P. Diliman
* Rockefeller Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy
* "Premio Cervara di Roma", Italy
* Has lectured at the University of Michigan, University of Auckland, Australian National University, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, St. Norbert College, University of East Anglia, University of Rome, and the London School of Economics and the University of California, San Diego

References and external links

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* [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~icw/associates.htm U.P. Institute of Creative Writing]
* [http://www.paef.org.ph/alumni-p.asp Philippine-American Educational Foundation]
* [http://www.geocities.com/nwwdumaguete/1981.html 20th Dumaguete National Writers Workshop]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/jdalisay/Menu13.html Odds and ends from a writer, teacher, and Mac addict from the Philippines]
* [http://www.authors.org.nz/images/ezine_Oct05_II.pdf New Zealand Writers’ Ezine]
* [http://www.admu.edu.ph/ateneo/www/SiteFiles/File/downloadables/loyola%20schools/Humanities_NAST_DrDalisay.pdf National Academy of Science and Technology]
* [http://www.thepinoy.com/sites/archipelago/ Archipelago]
* [http://www.up.edu.ph/forum/2002/Sept02/palanca.html UP Forum Online]
* [http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/commentary/c2000_0914_01.htm Cyberdyaryo]
* [http://www.esu.org/contact/international/philippines.asp English Speaking Union]
* [http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/dalisay_shortstory.html The Filipino Short Story in English: An Update for the‘90s]
* [http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/alumni/grad/MFA.asp University of Michigan]
* [http://www.oovrag.com/books/2005d-nvm.shtml Remembering NVM by Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.]
* [http://www.uea.ac.uk/eas/fellowships/wong/wongnews.shtml University of East Anglia]
* [http://archived.ccc.govt.nz/MediaReleases/1999/ProminentFilipinoauthor.asp Christchurch City Council, New Zealand]
* [http://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/filipiniana/publication.asp Filipinas Heritage Library]
* [http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/cw/alumni.html University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee]
* [http://www.aasa-net.org/bbs/view.asp?TB=BOARD_B01&gubun=B01&num=17&bkpage=2 Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia]
* [http://www-irps.ucsd.edu/about/041012.php University of California, San Diego]
* [http://www.philstar.com Philippine Star]
* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/refphilippines.html University of California, Berkeley]
* [http://www.dotpcvc.gov.ph/Kalakbay/k_awardees.html Kalakbay Awards, Department of Tourism]
* [http://www.paddyfield.com.hk/festival/2002lit/authors.php 2nd Hong Kong International Literary Festival]
* [http://www.pshsaa.org/ Philippine Science High School Alumni Association]
* [http://www.manunuri.com/nominado_archive.asp?year=1977 Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino 1977]
* [http://www.manunuri.com/nominado_archive.asp?year=1985 Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino 1985]
* [http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/philippines/bookreview.htm University of Hawaii at Manola Library]
* [http://library.uis.edu/iccmp/worldlit/seasian.html University of Illinois at Springfield]
* [http://www.geocities.com/palanca_awards/1987.html The Don Carlos Palanca Awards 1987]
* [http://homepage.mac.com/jdalisay/Personal5.html Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Ph.D. at Mac.com]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=181852 Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Saranggola, Review Summary, Filmography, Movies, The New York Times, 1999]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=273866 Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Saranggola, Filmography, Movies, The New York Times, 1999]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197951/ Butch Dalisay at IMdB.com]

ee also

*Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
*Severino Montano
*Rene Villanueva