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Luis Francia

Adjunct Professor

Education

  • 1965 B.A. in Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University

Areas of Research/Interest

Creative nonfiction; poetry; diasporic literature

External Affiliation

Hunter College (Adjunct Faculty); Vermont Center for Fine Arts MFA Program (writing faculty)

Fellowships/Honors

  • 2017 Writer-in-Residence, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
  • 2014 Knights of Rizal Award for Achievements in Arts and Literature. New York.
  • 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award. Filipino-American National Historical Society. New York.
  • 2006 Individual Artist Grant for Poetry. Queens Council of the Arts. New York.
  • 2003 Research Grant, Asian Cultural Council
  • 2002 PEN Open Book Award
  • 2002 Asian American Writers Workshop Literary Award
  • 2000 Writing Fellowship, Fundacíon Valparaiso/Beckett Foundation
  • 1992 Writing Fellowship, Edna St. Vincent Millay Arts Colony
  • 1988 Writer-in-Residence, Asian Cine-Vision
  • 1986 Writer-in-Residence, Center for American Culture Studies at Columbia University
  • 1985 Translation Grant, New York State Council for the Arts
  • 1978 First Prize in Poetry for Palanca Literary Memorial Awards

Publications

Poetry

Tattered Boat. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2014.

The Beauty of Ghosts. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010.

Introduction to José Garcia Villa/Doveglion: Collected Poems. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008.

Museum of Absences. Quezon City & San Francisco: University of the Philippines Press and Meritage Press, 2004.

The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Office of Research and Publications, 1992. Reissued as an e-book by AdeMU Press.

Her Beauty Likes Me Well. Poems by myself and by David Friedman. Introduction by Richard Eberhart. New York: Petrarch Press, 1979.

Nonfiction

RE: Reviews, Reflections, Recollections. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2015. Winner, Best Book of Essays in English, 2016, National Book Awards, Manila.

A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. New York: Overlook Press, 2010. Second edition, 2014.

Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago. Semiautobiographical work combining reportage, travel diaries, and memoir, examining cultural hybridity and neo-colonialism, with the Philippines as both foreground and background. 382 pp. New York: Kaya Press, 2001. Winner, Pen Open Book and Asian American Writers Literary awards, 2002.

Memories of Overdevelopment: Reviews and Essays of Two Decades. A collection of previously published work. Manila: Anvil Press, 1998.