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Cadena de Amor and other short stories released
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San Francisco, CALIFORNIA ---- Wilfrido D. Nolledo’s new book, “Cadena de Amor and Other Short Stories,” is finally out this month, after years of being awaited by his long-time readers. The anthology, printed by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing five months after his death, is a collection of stories expected to challenge the traditionalist-reader and get the new generation of readers into an adventure of surrealist literature. It brings back, as the blurb writer Alfred Yuson says, “those halcyon days when readers and budding writers recognized the premium in language as fresh and riveting as the substance it spun and wove,” and when “we used to recite from memory passages from his stories.”
Most of the stories included in the book had won prizes in the prestigious Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Competition and in the Philippines Free Press: The Last Caucus, Cadena de Amor, Kayumanggi Mon Amour, In Caress of Beloved Faces, and Rice Wine, a story much anthologized and taken up in many college literature courses.
Nolledo was a fictionist, playwright, essayist and screenwriter who left volumes of works at the time of his death. His novel, “But for the Lovers,” was once described in a magazine column by Isagani R. Cruz, writer and former undersecretary of education, as “the best novel by a Filipino published in New York but... much too ahead of its time to become a bestseller.” Nick Joaquin, in an article in 1970, described this book as the Spanish novel in the Philippines commemorated in English that is a peaking of our culture, and Nolledo is the link between Rizal and the posthumous’ crop of young writers in Tagalog.” It has gained a revival of interest since its reissue a few years ago in paperback by Dalkey Archive in Illinois. Nolled wrote two other novels: Sangria Tomorrow and 21 de Agosto. Both won the Palanca Grand Prize for Novel in 1981 and 1984, respectively.
Among Nolledo’s numerous other awards are: the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) award, a Cultural Award for Drama from the City of Manila, the Gawad Balagtas Award from the Writers Union of the Philippines, a Great Achiever Award in California for a “distinguished career in literary writing and for the pride he has bestowed on the Filipino people through recognition given him by American publishers and readers.” Nolledo was also the recipient of various scholarships and fellowships at the University of Iowa and the International Writing Workshop. In Iowa, he became the literary editor of the Iowa Review Quarterly for two years, from 1970-71. He taught creative writing at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York in the summer of 1972. The last novel he finished only days before he died is titled “A Cappella Dawn.”
For book orders or inquiries, please email Lilwing Digital, Inc. at lilwingdigital@comcast.net or Linda Nietes of Philippine Expressions Bookshop at lindanietes@earthlink.net.
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