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

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.

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