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are seventeen of the best short stories in English over the first six years of the NVM Gonzalez Awardsto, among the, Menchu Aquino Sarmiento's "Good Intentions: SY''," Charlson ONgs "Days of Darkness, White Nights," Socorro A.
Villanueva's "We Won't Cry about This," Janet Baclayon Villa's "Undercurrents," Angelo R, Lacuesta's "Rest Stop," and Alexis Abola's "At the Ends of the Hyphen, " All these stories are, says Gregorio C, Brillantes in his splendid preface, "astonishingly varied in vision, voic, mode, manner and consummation, . . each a vivid dream sustained by language every one a shining performance, " All are eminently worth of N, V. M. Gonzalez who the Awards hornor and memorialize because all "display" as Brillantes says, "the munificent range of the Filipino imagination, its manifold secrets, discoveries, and conglomerations, " The poet and literary critic Gémino H, Abad was born on February,in Sta, Ana, Manila. At present, he is a University Professor Emeritus at the University of the Philippines, His current writing and research include “Upon Our Own Ground”, a two volume historical anthology of short stories in English,, with critical introduction “Our Scene So Fair”, a book of critical essays on the poetry in English sinceto the mids, and “Where No Words break”, a volume of his own poems.
His parents are the noted novelist, playwright and essayist in Sugbuanon and Spanish, Antonio M, Abad, who was at one time Chair of the Department of Spanish in UP, and Jesusa H, Abad, professor of Spanish in UP, He is married to Mercedes A, Riv The poet and literary critic Gémino H, Abad was born on February,in Sta, Ana, Manila. At present, he is a University Professor Emeritus at the University of the Philippines, His current writing and research include “Upon Our Own Ground”, a two volume historical anthology of short stories in English,, with critical introduction “Our Scene So Fair”, a book of critical essays on the poetry in English sinceto the mids, and “Where No Words break”, a volume of his own poems.
His parents are the noted novelist, playwright and essayist in Sugbuanon and Spanish, Antonio M, Abad, who was at one time Chair of the Department of Spanish in UP, and Jesusa H, Abad, professor of Spanish in UP, He is married to Mercedes A, Rivera, with whom he has five children, He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, magna cum laude, from UP on, and has been teaching English literature and creative writing since then in the UP Department of English and Comparative Literature, even after his retirement in.
He earned his Masters degree with honors,, and Ph, D in English, at the University of Chicago under a Rockefeller Fellowship Grant, In, he was appointed University Professor in Literature, the highest academic rank at the University of the Philippines, In UP, he served as Secretary of the University and the Board of Regents fromas Vice President for Academic Affairs,, and as Director of Likhaan: the UP Creative Writing Center,.
He was the first holder of the Carlos P, Romulo Professional Chair in Literature from, and received the UP Outstanding Faculty Award for, He was also holder of the Irwin Chair for Literature at the Ateneo de Manila University,, He received the Chancellors Award as Best Office Administrator infor his management of the UP Creative Writing Center as its Director, He was a Fellow at the Cambridge Seminar, Trinity College, University of Cambridge,a Fellow in the International Writers Program, University of Iowa,a Visiting Professor at the Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa,a Fellow at the Oxford Conference on Teaching Literature Overseas, Corpus Christi College,, and Exchange Professor in Literature at St.
Norbert College Wisconsin,, and at Singapore Management University,represented the Philippines in therd “Mediterranea International Festival of Literature and the Arts” in Rome, July, Abad is also a member of the UP Writers Club and founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council PLAC, which puts out the Caracoa sincethe only poetry journal in English in Asia.
He has served as director and member of the teaching staff in numerous Writers Workshops in UP, Siliman/ Dumaguete, MSU IIT, and San Carlos University/ Cornelio Gaigao Workshop.
He is a judge in various literary contests such as the

Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, Graphic, Free Press, NVM Gonzales Fiction Awards, and Maningning Miclat Literary Awards, He is a speaker/ paper reader in various writers national conferences and various international conferences of scholars, He was a columnist in The Manila Chronicle, a weekly column called “Exchange”, with NVM Gonzales, Sylvia Ventura and Luning Bonifacio Ira The Evening Paper, a weekly column “Coming through”, with NVM Gonzales and Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo Musa: The Philippine Literature Magazine, a monthly column called “Vates: Our Poets Speak”, and Flip, a monthly column “Poets Clearing”.
He is cited in The Oxford Companion to the English Language,, as among “poets of note”, He is also included in the Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English, ed, Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly London: Routledge,and the CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art IX: Philippine Literature,, His awards include the Don Ca sitelink,