Author Topic: Ateneo hosting multi-awarded writer Luis H. Francia’s lecture-reading April 25  (Read 2246 times)

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The Ateneo de Manila University will host “Glimpses: One Writer’s Journey,” a public lecture and reading by Luis H. Francia, visiting faculty of the university for the second semester of SY 2016-2017. Open to the public, it is scheduled on April 25, 2017, 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at Faura AVR in Manila.

LUIS H. FRANCIA, MULTI-AWARDED FILIPINO POET-ESSAYIST


Francia will give an overview of his work and read a selection of his works in both creative nonfiction and poetry. For nonfiction, he will read from Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) and from RE: Recollections, Reviews, Reflections (2015); for poetry, from Museum of Absences, Tattered Boat, and some new works. His readings will be followed by a conversation with Prof. Francis C. Sollano, a Department of English instructor at Ateneo, and a question-and-answer session with the audience.

A winner of the Palanca Poetry Prize, Francia has come up with the poetry volume Tattered Boat (2014) and three earlier poetry collections: The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems, Museum of Absences, and The Beauty of Ghosts. He has also published two essay collections, Memories of Overdevelopment (1998) and later RE (2015), which won the 2016 National Book Award for Best Essays in English. In 2002, he won both the PEN Open Book and the Asian American Writers literary awards for Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago. He is listed in the Library of America’s Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing.

A member of the New York Writers Workshop, Francia has conducted writing workshops at the City University of Hong Kong, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and the Iowa Writers Summer Workshop. He is a humanities graduate of Ateneo de Manila University and currently teaches at New York University and at Hunter College.