Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) is a very important Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer. He was born raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer. A tondo is also a circular painting or relief carving. ... Lubao is a 1st class municipality in the southwestern part of the province of Pampanga, Philippines. ...

Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under the tutelage of pioneering fictionist Paz Marquez Benitez. Santos was a government pensionado (scholar) to the United States at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University in 1941. During World War II, he served with the Philippine government in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C. together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Artist Jose Garcia Villa. The Oblation UP Diliman, the flagship campus of the U.P. System UP Baguio UP Extension Program in Pampanga Temporary Campus UP Los Baños UP Manila This article is about the University of the Philippines System. ... Paz Márquez-Benítez (1894–1983) was a Filipina short-story writer. ... A Corner of Main Quad The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, or simply Illinois), is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. ... Alma Mater Columbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (b. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... Severino Montano is considered as one of the Titans of Philippine Theater. ... Jose Garcia Villa (1908-1997) Filipino poet, critic, painter, and short story writer. ...

In 1946, he returned to the Philippines to become a teacher and university administrator. He received a Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. Santos has also received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his short stories. Scent of Apples, his only book to be published in the United States, won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1980. Rockefeller is a surname, and may refer to: // John D. Rockefeller, Sr. ... The University of Iowa, also commonly called Iowa or U of I, is a major national research university located on a campus in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on the banks of the Iowa River in East Central Iowa. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ... Guggenheim can be a reference to any of a number of members or interests of the Meyer Guggenheim family, including: Meyer Guggenheim, or his descendants: Guggenheim family; The Guggenheim Museums; foundations such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (see also Guggenheim Fellowship), and the Harry... The Palanca Awards or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is the Philippines most prestigious and most enduring literary awards and is dubbed as the Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines. ...

Santos received honorary doctorate degrees in Humanities and Letters from the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay) in 1981. He was also a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Wichita State University (Kansas, U.S.A.) from 1973 to 1982. Santos also received an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters from Wichita State University in 1982. After his retirement, Santos became Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University in Manila. The Oblation UP Diliman, the flagship campus of the U.P. System UP Baguio UP Extension Program in Pampanga Temporary Campus UP Los Baños UP Manila This article is about the University of the Philippines System. ... Bicol University is a state university in Legazpi City, Philippines. ... The City of Legazpi (Bikol: Ciudad nin Legazpi; Filipino: Lungsod ng Legazpi) is a first class city and capital of the province of Albay, Philippines. ... Albay is a province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region in Luzon. ... Wichita State University (WSU) is an American state-supported university located in the middle-size city of Wichita, Kansas, in the south central part of the state. ... Official language(s) English[2] Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area  Ranked 15th  - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 km²)  - Width 211 miles (340 km)  - Length 417 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... Wichita State University (WSU) is an American state-supported university located in the middle-size city of Wichita, Kansas, in the south central part of the state. ... This article is about the De La Salle University System. ... Nickname: Motto: Linisin Ikarangal Maynila Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Manila Coordinates: 14°35 N 121° E Country Region Districts 1st to 6th districts of Manila Barangays 897 Incorporated (city) June 10, 1574 Government  - Mayor Alfredo Lim (2007-2010; GO)  - Vice Mayor Isko Moreno (AM/PDP-Laban...

De La Salle University honored Bienvenido Santos by renaming its Creative Writing Center after him. This article is about the De La Salle University System. ...

Works

Novels

• Brother My Brother (1960)
• The Volcano (1965)
• Villa Magdalena (1965)
• The Praying Man (1977)
• The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor

Poetry

• The Wounded Stag: 54 Poems
• Distances: In Time
• woman afraid

Nonfiction

• Memory's Fictions: A Personal History
• Postscript to a Saintly Life
• Letters: Book 1
• Letters: Book 2
• My Most Memorable Christmas

Awards, Honors and Prizes

• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at the University of Iowa
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for short fiction (1956, 1961 and 1965)
• Fulbright Program Exchange Professorship
• American Book Award from Before Colmbus Foundation
• Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, University of the Philippines
• Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and Letters, Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines)
• Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, Wichita State University (Kansas, U.S.A.)

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External links

• Bienvenido Santos in infoplease
• People: Bienvenido Santos
• The Literary Encyclopedia
• Immigration blues
• Filipino-American literature
• A guide to literary criticism on the internet for Bienvenido Santos
• Up from benevolent assimilation: at home with the Manongs of Bienvenido Santos by Victor Bascara
• Filipino Writers Album
• Books of Bienvenido Santos
• Filipino-American Literature at Emory University
• PALH Books on Philippine Literature
• Introduction to Asian Pacific American Literature at the University of Oregon
• De la Salle University
• Rereading History, Rewriting Desire: Reclaiming Queerness in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart and Bienvenido Santos' Scent Of Apples by Melinda L. de Jesus
• Wichita State University