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Cecilia Brainard’s Selected Short Stories Wins 40th National Book Award in Short Fiction

April 29, 2023 by admin Leave a Comment

Read CNN arti­cle “Full List: The Win­ners of the 40th Nation­al Book Awards”

I am grate­ful that my Select­ed Short Sto­ries was hon­ored with the 40th Nation­al Book Award in the cat­e­go­ry of  Best Book of Short Fic­tion in English.

The book was qui­et­ly released in 2021 when Covid was still caus­ing hav­oc, and like most books released dur­ing the time of pan­dem­ic, it was ignored.  I am there­fore hap­py that the Mani­la Cir­cle’s Crit­ics and the Nation­al Book Board Devel­op­ment found mer­it in the book.

Thanks to my pub­lish­er, Uni­ver­si­ty of San­to Tomas Pub­lish­ing house and the UST folks who have includ­ed me in their fam­i­ly: Ailil Alvarez, Ned Par­far, Jack Wigley, Jing Hidal­go, Ralph Galan, and many others.

There is more infor­ma­tion about my Select­ed Short Sto­ries in this link:

The book is avail­able from Laza­da and Shopee in the Philip­pines. Ama­zon and Barnes and Noble also car­ry the book.

Tags: Philip­pine books, Fil­ipino books, Fil­ipino short sto­ries, Fil­ipino lit­er­a­ture, Cebuano lit­er­a­ture, Cebu lit­er­a­ture, NBA Awards, Book Awards

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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