Snag Seven Hills Away And Other Stories Fabricated By N.V.M. Gonzalez Distributed As Interactive EBook

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nice : Cristina PantojaHidalgo qouted NVM Gonzalez or Nestor Vicenti Madali Gonzalez as the writer who never left home.
And if you would read his works you will know why,

Seven Hills Away and Other Stories is composed ofshort stories written by NVM, This collection short stories was first publish in Denver Colorado in the year, Allshort stories are tales that depicts the simple life of Pilipino way back in his years, The forest clearings, hunting wild game, the planting and harvesting crops, our tradition and old beliefs antinganting/agimat at mga kasabihan.
Almost all the tales are situated in the island of Mindoro where NVM spend his childhood,

PREFACE
This book really started NVM's passion with the art of writing, Swallow Press in Denver, Colorado, first printed the book in, Professor Alan Swallow believe that these short stores abou the Philippine life were worth sharingwith American readers, The first to appreciate this slim volume of short stories was the Director of Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr Charles Fahs.
He came to the Philippines and sought out NVM who was then editor of the Evening News Maagazine, InNVM was named the first Filipino fellow of the Humanities Division of the Rockefeller Foundation,
NVM did not try to earn a degree, He wanted instead to meet with writers and critics teaching in selected universities in the U, S. He started in Stanford University and met Wallace Stegner and Katherine Porter, His two classmates in Stanford, Ed Loomis University of Santa Barbara and Bob Williams of California State University, Hayward were later responsible in asking NVM to go to the U.
S. to teach.
When NVM came home in, he started to teach creative writing in University of Santo Tomas, Philippine Women's University, and University of the Philippines.
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Narita M. Gonzalez
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Aklat: PITONG GULOD PA ANG LAYO AT IBA PANG KUWENTO ni Pambansang Alagad ng Sining N.
V. M. Gonzales Salin sa Filipino ni Ed Maranan
Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino,

Si Nestor Vicente Madali "N.
V. M. " Gonzalesay ginawaran ng parangal bilang Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan noong, Bale naparangalan siya noong siya ayyears old at pagkalipas lang ngtaon ay namatay na, Hindi ko alam kung bakit kung kailan matanda o patay na na ang mga alagad ng sining ay saka sila kinikilala sa kanilang kontribusyon sa bayan.


Unang aklat ito ni Gonzalez na nabasa ko, Ito raw koleksyon na ito ngmaikling kuwento ay ang unang aklat na nalimbag ni Gonzalez, Original itong lumabas sa wikang Ingles, ang lenguwaheng ginamit ni Gonzalez sa pagsusulat ng kanyang mga akda, Unang lumabas ang Seven Hills Away sa Denver, Colorado noongat ito ay edisyon ni Allan Sparrow.
Bago mamatay si Gonzalez ay nakapanayam siya ng mananaliksik na si Alberto Florentino na nagtanong kung bakit sa kabila ng pagsusumikap at paminsanminsang pananagumpay ng mga Pilipinong manunulat sa Amerika noong mga dekada ''kagaya nina Jose Garcia Villa, Carlos Bulosan, Bienvenido Santos, Stevan Javellana at Wilfrido Nolledo ay nahihirapan pa rin silang matanggap ng mainstream publishers.
Ang sagot ni Gonzales ay "Sapagkat tayo'y nagsusulat sa Ingles, " Para sa kanya ang mga Pilipino o ang mga manunulat na Pilipino ay nagsusulat sana sa Tagalog o Filipino o sa alin mang wikang kanilang sinuso at kinalakihan.
p. VIII.

Na iyon ang dahilan kung bakit ko sobrang nagustuhan ang akdang ito, Ang mga kuwento ay hango sa kanyang naging buhay sa Mindoro noong dekada ', Uso pa noon ang paghahawan o pagpapabrika na naging backdrop ng tatlo sa unang apat na kuwento rito: ang "Ang Tagapagbukas" na ang ibig sabihin ay ang taong naghawan ng gubat para pagtaniman at gawing tirahan.
Noong panahong iyon, pag nahawan mo ang gubat ay pagaari mo na ito at maaari ka pang magimbita ng iba mong kaibigan o kamaganak para manahan doon ang "Buhay at Kamatayan sa Isang Kaingin sa Mindoro" naman ay tungkol sa grupo ng kalalakihan na inupahan ng isang mayamang si Ka Pedro upang hawanin ang gubat kasama na ang pagputol sa isang malaking puno ng balete na pinaniniwalaang bahay ng engkanto at ang "Ang Pagpupunla" na tungkol sa magasawang magkakaingin sa bundok upang pagtaniman ng palay habang sa gilid ng dawag ay natutulog ang kanilang sanggol.
Ang punto ko ay ito: napakalokal ang setting ng mga kuwento upang gamitan ng diyalogong Ingles, Hindi ko maimagine kung ang paguusap ng magasawang nagkakaingin ay Ingles samantalang ang setting ay sobrang Pinoy lalo na noong panahong iyon na masasabing hindi pa tayo o lalong sila sa probinsya masasabing westernized.


Marami pang magagandang akda rito lalonglalo na yong mismong kuwentong pinagkunan ng pamagat ng koleksyon, ang "Pitong Gulod Pa Ang Layo.
" Ito yong tipong mapapatanong ka kung anong ibig sabihin ni Gonzalez, Parang mahiwaga dahil di ko alam ang sagot kung anong mensahe ba ang puwede kong makuha sa kuwento pero alam mong meron.
At hindi siguro niya gagawing banner title story ito kung hindi niya ipinagmamalaki sa ganda,

Maraming salamat kay Ed Maranan sa kanyang masinop at masining na pagkakasalin ng akda sa Filipino, Buhay na buhay ang mga tagpo at parang mga larawang khaki at puti na nakikita ko noon sa baul ng nasira kong lola.
Mga larawang gumagalaw. Tapos ang lenguwahe ay parang yong napapanood ko sa black and white na TV namin noong binatilyo pa ako sa Baguio.
Para sa akin, naisalin ni Maranan ang mga kuwento hindi lamang sa eksaktong equivalent ng mga salitang Ingles sa Filipino.
Iniangkop rin niya ang tamang lumang porma ng Filipino na ginagamit nang panahong's sa Pilipinas,

Salamat sa napakagandang akda, Sir Gonzales at Sir Maranan, Mabuhay po kayo! Patay na si Sir Gonzalez at ayoko namang mabuhay siya noon pangpero mananatili syang buhay sa mga mambabasa sa pamamagitan ng kanyang walang kamatayang mga kuwento.


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N, V. M. Gonzalez Nestor Vicenti Madali Gonzalez b, Romblon, RomblonSept. Fictionist, poet, essayist. He was the son of Vicente Gonzalez, a school supervisor, and Pastora Madali, a teacher, He was married to Narita Manuel with whom he had four children, When he was four, his family migrated to Mindoro and settled in barrio of Wasig, Gonzalez had his early schooling in Romblon and later attended Mindoro High School, Inhe took the entrance examination to the University of the Philippines but failed, He went back to Mindoro and worked as a delivery boy in his fathers slaughterhouse and meat stall in Calapan.
During this time, he began contributing to the Graphic, For about a year, he would walk from Wasig to Mansalay for five N, V. M. Gonzalez Nestor Vicenti Madali Gonzalez b, Romblon, RomblonSept. Fictionist, poet, essayist. He was the son of Vicente Gonzalez, a school supervisor, and Pastora Madali, a teacher, He was married to Narita Manuel with whom he had four children, When he was four, his family migrated to Mindoro and settled in barrio of Wasig, Gonzalez had his early schooling in Romblon and later attended Mindoro High School, Inhe took the entrance examination to the University of the Philippines but failed, He went back to Mindoro and worked as a delivery boy in his father's slaughterhouse and meat stall in Calapan.
During this time, he began contributing to the Graphic, For about a year, he would walk from Wasig to Mansalay for five hours to type his story at the municipal hall and post it to the magazine.
Gonzalez had his first literary break when he won in the students' literary contest sponsored by the Graphic for an essay in Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Calapan in.
He left for Manila, met Francisco Arcellana, and joined the Veronicans, He studied for two years at the National University and Manila Law College, but quit his college studies sometime in.
He joined the Graphic, working there until the outbreak of WWII, After the war and without a college degree, he was invited by the University of the Philippines UP, to teach English and the short story fromto.
He became the chairperson of the Second UP Writers Summer Workshop in Los Baños inand was twice chosen as the Workshop's writer in residence inand.
He received several Rockefeller grants which enabled him to take special studies in creative writing at Stanford University, the Kenyon School of English, and Columbia University, and to travel in Asia and Europe.
In, he went to the University of California in Santa Barbara as a visiting associate professor of English, and stayed there untilas a professor of English and Asian American literature at the University of Washington fromto, and in, artist in residence of the Djarassi Foundation in Woodside, California.
Gonzalez's published novels are the Winds of April ,A Season of Grace ,and The Bamboo Dancers ,his published short story collections are Seven Hills Away ,Children of the Ash Covered Loam and Other Stories ,Look Stranger, On This Island Now ,Selected Stories ,and Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty one Stories ,.
His most recent published works are Kalutang: A Filipino in the World an autobiographical essay,, and The Father and the Maid , a compilation of six lectures delivered under the sponsorship of the UP Creative Writing Center,, He finished his final draft

of a short novel called Kaingin Country and was working on a sheaf of poems, A Wander Through the Night of the World.
Also in preparation is the Mother the Provider , a collection of stories, Gonzalez received a special award in theCommonwealth Literary Contest for The Winds of April , the Philippine Republic Award of Merit for Literature in English in, the Republic Cultural Heritage in, the Jose Rizal Pro Patria Award in, and the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan ward infrom the city government of Manila.
Eight of his short stories were included in Jose Garcia Villa's honor roll into, His short stories, “On the Ferry”and “Serenade” in, won third prize and first prize, respectively, in the Philippines Free Press literary contest.
His short stories, which won in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, are: “Children of the Ash Covered Loam,” second prize in“Lupo and the River,” second prize in“On the Ferry,” third prize,and “Tomato Game,” first prize in.
In, he received the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in literature, He was conferred National Artist status in, He passed away indue to kidney complica sitelink,