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Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.




Biography


Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under Paz Marquez Benitez. In 1941, Santos was a government pensionado (scholar) to the United States at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. He had arrived in San Francisco on October 12, 1941, aboard the Ruth Alexander leaving his wife and three daughters in the Philippines. When war in the Pacific came to the Philippines on December 8 (December 7 Hawaii time) he feared he would never see his family again—a reality that "not only interrupted his study of realism; it was overwhelming it" leading to a transformation in his sense of national consciousness and identity. That crisis changed the nature of his writing into a less carefree style to one mixing laughter and pain; described by Florentino Valeros as "a man hiding tears in his laughter."
During World War II, he served with the Philippine government in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C., together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Artist Jose Garcia Villa. Santos left for home on January 17, 1946, aboard the Uruguay arriving in early February.
In 1967, he returned to the United States to become a teacher and university administrator. He received a Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. Santos has also received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his short stories. Scent of Apples won a 1980 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
Santos received an honorary doctorate degrees in humanities and letters from the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay) in 1981. He was also a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Wichita State University from 1973 to 1982, at which time the university awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters. After his retirement, Santos became Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University in Manila; the university honored Santos by renaming its creative writing center after him.




Works






Awards, honors and prizes


Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of Iowa
Guggenheim Fellowship
Republic Cultural Heritage Award
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for short fiction (1956, 1961 and 1965)
Fulbright Program Exchange Professorship
American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation
Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, University of the Philippines
Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines)
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Wichita State University (Kansas, U.S.)




See also



List of Asian American writers




Critical studies


As of March 2001:




Footnotes






Citations






References






External links


Bienvenido Santos in infoplease
People: Bienvenido Santos
Immigration blues Archived 2005-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
Filipino-American literature
A guide to literary criticism on the internet for Bienvenido Santos
Up from benevolent assimilation: at home with the Manongs of Bienvenido Santos by Victor Bascara
Filipino Writers Album Archived 2013-01-04 at archive.today
Filipino-American Literature at Emory University
Introduction to Asian Pacific American Literature at the University of Oregon
De la Salle University
Rereading History, Rewriting Desire: Reclaiming Queerness in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart and Bienvenido Santos' Scent Of Apples by Melinda L. de Jesus
Wichita State University

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