Dean Francis Alfar

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Dean Francis Alfar (born 1969), is a Filipino playwright, novelist and writer of speculative fiction. His plays have been performed in venues across the country, while his articles and fiction have been published both in his native Philippines and abroad, such as in Strange Horizons, Rabid Transit and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

His literary awards include ten Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Palanca Awards) — including the Grand Prize for Novel for Salamanca (Ateneo Press, 2006)— as well as the Manila Critics’ Circle National Book Awards for the graphic novels Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion, and the Philippines Free Press Literary Award.

He was a fellow at the 1992 Dumaguete National Writers Workshop and 20th UP National Writers Workshop.

He is an advocate of the literature of the fantastic, editing the Philippine Speculative Fiction series, as well as a comic book creator and a blogger.

Alfar is also an entrepreneur — running several businesses. He lives in Manila with his wife, fictionist Nikki Alfar and their daughter.

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[edit] Awards

Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature

  • 2007 Palanca Awards|2007 - for short story for Children (Poor, Poor Luisa)
  • 2006 Palanca Awards|2006 - for short story for Children (How Rosang Taba Won the Race)
  • 2005 Palanca Awards|2005 - for the novel (Salamanca)
  • 2004 Palanca Awards|2004 - for futuristic fiction (Hollow Girl)
  • 2004 Palanca Awards|2004 - for one-act play (The Kite of Stars)
  • 2003 Palanca Awards|2003 - for one-act play (The Onan Circle)
  • 1994 Palanca Awards|1994 - for full-length play (Island)
  • 1994 Palanca Awards|1994 - for one-act play (Loving Toto)
  • 1991 Palanca Awards|1991 - for one-act play (Short Time)
  • 1990 Palanca Awards|1990 - for one-act play (Fragments of Memory)

Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards

  • 2006- Best Comic Book (Siglo: Passion)
  • 2004- Best Comic Book (Siglo: Freedom)

Philippines Free Press Literary Awards

  • 2007 Free Press Award|2007 - for short story (Six from Downtown)

Fellowships

  • 31st National Writers' Workshop, Dumaguete (1992) - Writing Fellow
  • 20th U.P. National Writers' Workshop (1992) - Writing Fellow

[edit] Works

[edit] Books

  • Salamanca, Ateneo de Manila University Press, April 2006. Grand Prize Winner for Novel, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2005.
  • Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, Kestrel, December 2005. (Anthology of short fiction)
  • Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 2, Kestrel, December 2006. (Anthology of short fiction)
  • Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 3, Kestrel, December 2007. (Anthology of short fiction)
  • The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, Anvil Publishing, 2007. (Collection of short fiction)

[edit] Short Fiction

  • “Remembrance”, (forthcoming in Exotic Gothic II, edited by Danel Olsen, Ash-Tree Press)
  • “Something Like That”, (forthcoming in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard)
  • “How My Mother Flew”, (forthcoming in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard)
  • “The Music Teacher”, (forthcoming in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard)
  • “Strange Weather”, (forthcoming in Story Philippines).
  • “The Maiden and the Crocodile” (forthcoming in Bewildering Stories).
  • “Princess Ribbit”, (with Nikki Alfar), (forthcoming in Story Junior).
  • “Sunboy” in Philippines Free Press, May 2008.
  • “In the Dim Plane” in Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, April 2008.
  • “The Middle Prince”, in Tales of Fantasy and Enchantment, edited by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, February 2008
  • “An Excerpt from 'Princes of the Sultanate' (Ghazali: 1902); Annotated by Omar Jamad Maududi, MLS, HOL, JMS”, in Story Philippines, February 2008
  • “Chasing Aurora" in Sunday Inquirer Magazine of the Philippine Daily Inquirer), November 2007.
  • “Ever, After” in Philippines Free Press, August 2007.
  • “Into the Morning” in Bewildering Stories, July 2007.
  • “The Dragon in the Bell” in Philippines Free Press, June 2007.
  • “Sabados con Fray Villalobos” in A la Carte; Food and Fiction, edited by Cecilia Manguerra-Brainard and Marily Orosa (February 2007).
  • “The Middle Prince” in Bewildering Stories, September 2006; Digest of Philippine Genre Stories, December 2006
  • “How Rosang Taba Won A Race” in Philippines Free Press, July 2006.
  • “Six From Downtown” in Philippines Free Press, June 2006; Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol.2 (Kestrel, December 2006)
  • “The Maiden and the Crocodile” in Story Philippines, March 2006.
  • “Hollow Girl: A Romance” in Latitude: Writing from the Philippines and Scotland, edited by Angelo R. Lacuesta and Toni Davidson (Anvil Publishing, March 2006; Futuristic Fiction, Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2004).
  • “Four-letter Words” in Manual, January 2006.
  • “Terminos” in Rabid Transit : Menagerie, (Velocity Press, U.S.A., May 2005).
  • “L’Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars)” in Strange Horizons, January 2003; in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror Seventeenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant (St. Martin’s Press, U.S.A., August 2004); and in Philippine Speculative Fiction Vol. 1, edited by Dean Francis Alfar (Kestrel, December 2005).
  • “Gumamela” in ab ovo 2 (Kestrel Studios, January 2003).
  • “Ser Clessidrana Acerca Tiempo (Mr. Clessidrana Thinks About Time)” in Hinirang.com, 2002.
  • “(push)” in Stuff Magazine, May 2001.
  • “Spark: The Sad and Strange Tale of Sister Maria Dolores, the Nun who Exploded” in National Midweek, 1992.
  • “The Last Mermaid Story” in National Midweek, 1992.
  • “The Secret Measure” in National Midweek, 1992.
  • “Magan & Balo” in MOD Magazine, 1991.

[edit] Comic Books

  • Siglo: Passion, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Vincent Michael Simbulan (Kestrel/Nautilus Books, 2005).
  • The Craft Century in Project: Hero, edited by Elbert Or & Andrew Drilon (Questventures, 2005).
  • Invitation in K.I.A., edited by Marco Dimaano (Alamat Comics, 2005).
  • Quad in Hey Comics!, edited by Ramon de Veyra, 2004.
  • Siglo: Freedom, edited by Dean Francis Alfar & Vincent Michael Simbulan (Kestrel/Nautilus Books, 2003).
  • Ab Ovo 1, 2, edited by Dean Francis Alfar (Kestrel, 2002).
  • The Lost 1, 2. Kestrel, 2001.

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