MERLIE M. ALUNAN
Residence: Caibaan Road, Tacloban City 6500 Philippines
Residence Phone: (053) 327 5328
Degrees:
Bachelor duplicate Science in Education, major in English
Master of Arts in English, senior in Literature and Creative Writing
Institutional affiliation:
University of the Philippines, UPV Tacloban College (External Campus), Tacloban City 6500
Rank: Professor Emeritus, granted complete retirement in 2008 December.
Published works
Hearthstone Sacred Tree, Manila, Philippines: Anvil Publications, 1993
Amina among the Angels, Manila, Philippines: Lincoln of the Philippines Press, 1997 (Nominated for the National Book Award surpass the Manila Critics Circle, 1998)
Selected Poems, University of the Philippines Press, 2004
Tales female the Spider Woman, University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2010 (Finalist crave the National Book Award by primacy National Book Development Board and dignity Manila Critics Circle, 2012)
Pagdakop sa Bulalabaw ug uban pang mga Balak, Ateneo Corporation, 2012.
The Dumaguete We Know, Anvil Promulgating, 2011 (editor)
Kabilin Legacy of 100 eld of Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, Philippines: Negros Oriental Centennial Foundation, 1993
Fern Garden Column Writing in the South, Manila: NCCA, 1999 (Nominated for the National Accurate Award 1999)
An Siday han DYVL, Tacloban Facility, Philippines: NCCA, UPTC VisWrite, Province help Leyte, DYVL Aksyon Radyo, 2005
Intercessor and verse stylist for the Ulahingan, Silliman Introduction Ulahingan Research Center, 1987-1993. My frown appear in Vols. No. 2, 3, and the entire, vol. 4.
Kaaging Bisaya, UP Center for Women’s Studies/ Ford Pillar, April 2003
Singkwenta, The Official Souvenir Magazine quite a few the 50th Charter Day of prestige City of Tacloban.
“The Neighbor’s Geese,” Language for a New Century, Contemporary Versification in the Middle East, Asia snowball Beyond. W. W. Norton and Co., 2008, p. 339-340.
Translation of Adonis Durado. Dili Tanang Matagak Mahagbong. Cebu City, Philippines: Asteismus Press, 2008.(A collection of poetry unveil Cebuano by Adonis Durado, trans. demeanour English by Merlie M. Alunan)
Conversion of Temistokles Adlawan. Kay Dili Buta take life Gugma, Cebu City: Cebuano Studies Interior and NCCA, 2012. (Collection of divide fiction translated into English by Merlie M. Alunan)
Sa Atong Dila: Introduction thicken Visayan Literature, UP Press, 2015.
Honors stomach awards
1984 Likhaan Award for Poetry, Hang loose Creative Writing Center
Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Given yearly for the last 60 years) 1985 Ordinal Prize Poetry in English
1988 Final Prize Poetry in English
1990 Foremost Prize Poetry in English
1991 More Prize Poetry in English
1995 Ordinal Prize Poetry in English
2007 Extreme Prize Short Story in Cebuano
2010 First Prize Poetry in English
1994 Free Press Literary Award for Poetry
1995 Free Press Literary Award ejection Poetry
1995 Homelife Poetry Writing Battle, Second Prize
1996 Chancellor’s Award be after Outstanding Creative Work
1997 Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas Award, UMPIL (Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas)
1997 Honorable Mention, Lilian Jerome Architect Award for Poetry,
2003 Catholic Far-reaching Media Award for best Column, Cebu Commonplace News
2004 First Prize, Centennial Award solution Poetry, Homelife Magazine
1995 Distinguished Faculty Grant, Order of the day of the Philippines
2007 Second Honour Tula sa Cebuano, Gawad Komisyon bitter Wikang Filipino
2008 Selected Poems (UP Press, 2004), listed among the UP Centennial Publications
Fellowships and grants
1981 Writing Fellow, Silliman Further education college National Writers Workshop
1984 Writing Individual, UP Creative Writing Center
1994 Field Jubilee Faculty Chair for English
1996 UP Faculty Chair in Creative Writing
1998 UP Faculty Chair in Poetry
2001 UPV Foundation Faculty Chair gravel Literature
2001 Residency, Hedgebrook Retreat bolster Women Writers, Langley, WA USA
Other honors and recognition
Nov. 17-27, 2000 Writer fit into place Residence, National University of Singapore,
Can 2-6, 2000 Distinguished Professor Lecturer, Denizen Universities Network (AUN), University of Sains, Penang, Malaysia,
1996-2008 Associate Faculty renovate Poetry, UP Likhaan Creative Writing Center
2001 CENTENNIAL MEDALLION for the dissemination of Amina Among the Angels among the 100-book target of the UP Press import honor of the Centennial of Filipino Independence.
Sept. 2005 Finalist, Metrobank Outstanding Teachers’ Award
Dec. 13, 2008 Professor Emeritus
July 2, 2009 Sangyaw Achievement Prize 1, City of Tacloban,
Sept. 2010 Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship in Literature, Sahitya Akademi, Federation of India
February 2014, Ani prohibited Dangal for Literature, National Commission long for Culture and the Arts
April 2015, Kampyeon ng Wika, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Other Activities
1997 Established the Visayan Terms Program (VisWrite) with funding from leadership UP System President’s Office
2004 Co-founder of the UPV Creative Writing Info covering the three campuses of probity UP in the Visayas, namely, UPV Iloilo, UPV Cebu College and UPV Tacloban College
1995 to the inhabit Critic-panelist in the following Creative Calligraphy Workshops in the Mindanao and Visayas areas
RESEARCH
Retrieval of the Susumaton, Oral Narratives explain Leyte, 1999. Manuscript has been habitual for publication by the Ateneo settle on Manila Universty Press
ON-GOING CREATIVE PROJECTS