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José Y. Dalisay Jr.

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Born: December 31 1953

Dr. José Y. Dalisay Jr. was born in Romblon, Philippines in 1954.

As of January 2006, he had published 15 books of his stories, plays, and essays, with five of those books receiving the National Book Award from the Manila Critics Circle. In 1998, he was named to the Cultural Center of the Philippines Centennial Honors List for his work as a playwright and fictionist.

He graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1984 , the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee . He teaches English and Creative Writing as a full professor at the University of the Philippines, where he also serves as coordinator of the creative writing program and as an Associate of the UP Institute of Creative Writing. After serving as chairman of the English Department, he became Vice President for Public Affairs of the UP System from May 2003 to February 2005.

Among his distinctions, he has won 16 Palanca Awards in five genres , five Cultural Center of the Philippines awards for playwriting, and Famas, Urian, Star and Catholic Film awards and citations for his screenplays. He was named one of The Outstanding Young Men of 1993 for his creative writing. He has been a Fulbright, Hawthornden, David TK Wong, Rockefeller, and British Council fellow.

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Books from José Y. Dalisay Jr.

Manila Noir

Soledad's Sister

Killing Time in a Warm Place

Fast Food Fiction: Short Short Stories to Go

Fourteen Love Stories

Penmanship & Other Stories

The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English from 1900 to the Present

The Knowing Is in the Writing: Notes on the Practice of Fiction

Wash: Only A Bookkeeper, A Biography of Washington Z. SyCip

Oldtimer and Other Stories

The Best Of Barfly

Writing Home: Nineteen Writers Remember Their Hometowns

Apat na Screenplay

Sarcophagus and Other Stories

Man Overboard: Essays by, for, and of the smart Filipino male

The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction 1999

Tribute: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Fiction

UP in the Time of the People Power (1983-2005): A Centennial Publication

Rizal +

Likhaan 2007: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature