Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo

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Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, born Cristina Pantoja on 21 August 1944, is an award-winning Filipina fictionist, critic and pioneering writer of creative nonfiction.

Pantoja-Hidalgo earned her Bachelor of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters) and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Santo Tomas. She later received a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines in 1993. She is an Associate for Fiction at the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing and a member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC). She previously served U.P. as Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing, Director of the University of the Philippines Press and coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the U.P. Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters. Pantoja-Hidalgo is currently Vice President for Public Affairs and Professor of English, comparative literature and creative writing at the University of Philippines.

Pantoja-Hidalgo has been writing for Philippine newspapers and magazines since the age of fifteen. She has worked as a writer, editor and teacher in Thailand, Lebanon, Korea, Myanmar (Burma) and New York, U.S.A. Her interesting lifestyle, the result of her husband's fifteen-year connection with UNICEF, is reflectled in her writing. Pantoja-Hidalgo was originally best known for an unusual kind of autobiographical/travel writing, which includes Sojourns (1984), Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi (1993), I Remember (1991) and The Path of the Heart (1994). Pantoja-Hidalgo later won numerous other prizes for her fiction, creative nonfiction, literary scholarship and edited anthologies. She has frequently published many of her creative and critical manuscripts in major publications in Finland, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Short Fiction

  • Ballad of a Lost Season, 1987;
  • Tales for a Rainy Night, 1993 ;
  • Where Only the Moon Rages, 1994;
  • Catch a Falling Star, 1999

[edit] Novels

  • Recuerdo, 1996;
  • Book of Dreams, 2001

[edit] Essays / Creative Non-fiction

  • Sojourns, 1984
  • Five Years in a Forgotten Land: A Burmese Notebook, 1991
  • I Remember...Travel Essays, 1992
  • Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi: A Korean Notebook, 1993;
  • The Path of the Heart, 1994;
  • Coming Home, 1998

[edit] Literary Criticism

  • Woman Writing: Home and Exile in the Autobiographical Narratives of Filipino Women, 1994;
  • A Gentle Subversion: Essays on Philippine Fiction, 1998

[edit] Anthologies (as editor)

  • Selections from Contemporary Philippine Literature in English, 1971
  • Philippine Post-Colonial Studies, 1993 (coedited with Priscelina Patajo-Legasto)
  • The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction: 1995, 1996
  • Shaking the Family Tree, 1998
  • An Edith Tiempo Reader, 1999
  • The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction: 1997, 1999
  • Pinay: Autobiographical Narratives by Women Writers, 1926-1998, 2000
  • Why I Travel and Other Essays, 2000
  • Sleepless in Manila: Essays on Insomnia by Insomniacs, 2003
  • My Fair Maladies, 2005

[edit] Textbooks

  • Creative Nonfiction: A Manual for Filipino Writers, 2003
  • Creative Nonfiction: A Reader, 2003

[edit] Honors and Awards

  • Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Fiction, Essay and the Novel
  • Philippine Graphic Awards for Fiction
  • Philippines Free Press Awards for Fiction
  • Focus Awards for Fiction
  • National Book Awards from The Manila Critics' Circle
  • British Council Fellowship to Cambridge
  • U.P. President's Award for Outstanding Publication
  • U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Artist of the Year
  • U.P. Gawad Chancellor for Outstanding Teacher (Professor Level)
  • Ellen F. Fajardo Foundation Grant for Excellence in Teaching
  • Outstanding Thomasian Writer Award
  • U.P. Gawad Chancellor Hall of Fame Award
  • U.P. System International Publication Awards
  • Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair in Creative Writing, Ateneo de Manila University

[edit] External links

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