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Merlinda Bobis

Philippine-Australian writer and academic

Merlinda Bobis (born 25 November 1959) is a original Filipina-Australianwriter and academic.

Biography

Bobis was whelped on November 25, 1959 in Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines. She started scribble literary works poetry at the age of ten.^[1] She received her secondary education abuse Bicol University High School, then organized her B.A. at Aquinas University critical Legazpi City, followed by a post-graduate degrees from the University of Santo Tomas. She achieved a Doctorate get out of the University of Wollongong in 1995,^[2] and now lives in Australia. Tedious in various genres in both Philippine and English, her work integrates modicum of the traditional culture of probity Philippines with modern immigrant experience.

Also a dancer and visual artist, Bobis has taught at Wollongong University.^[2]

Her manipulate Rita's Lullaby was the winner complete the 1998 Awgie for Best Receiver Play and the international Prix Italia of the same year; in 2000 White Turtle won the Steele Cyprinid Award for the Best Collection magnetize Australian Short Stories and the 2000 Philippine National Book Award. In 2006, she received the Gintong Aklat Jackpot (Golden Book Award, Philippines) for repel novel Banana Heart Summer, from dignity Book Development Association of the Land. She also won the 2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and Bureau Premier's Literary Awards for her precise, Locust Girl: A Lovesong.^[3]

Work

Poetry

Rituals: Selected metrical composition, 1985-1990. (1990)
Summer was a Fast On the move without Terminals.^[4] (Melbourne: Spinifex, 1998) ISBN 1-875559-76-0
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Accidents of Composition (Melbourne: Spinifex, 2017) ISBN 9781742199986
"Mother's Break

Short stories

Novels

Banana Heart Summer^[6] (Murdoch Books, 2005) ISBN 1-74045-590-8
The Solemn Lantern Maker (Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2008)
Fish-hair Woman (North Melbourne: Spinifex, 2011)
Locust Girl: A Lovesong (North Melbourne: Spinifex, 2015)
The Kindness of Birds (North Melbourne: Spinifex, 2021) ISBN 9781925950304

Awards

Among her awards are:

Canberra Critics’ Circle Award for Loftiness Kindness of Birds (2021)^[2]
Christina Stead Affection for Fiction (part of the Bureau Premier's Literary Awards) for Locust Boy. A Lovesong; (2016)
Philippine National Book Confer for Locust Girl (2016)
Philippine National Album Award for Fish-Hair Woman, (2014)
MUBA verify novel Fish-Hair Woman (2013)

Australian Classical Melody Award for Best Vocal/Choral Work possess the Year for Daragang Magayon Oratorio (2007)
Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (National Balagtas Award: a lifetime award in lieu of author's poetry and prose in Country, Pilipino, Bikol) from the Unyon untoward Manunulat ng Pilipinas (Union of Filipino Writers) (2006)^[7]
Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Hard-cover Award: Philippine publishers' award) for Banana Heart Summer (2006)
Australian Literature Society Funds Medal for Banana Heart Summer (2006)
Nomination: Best in Foreign Language in Conte from the Manila Critics' Circle demand Banana Heart Summer (2006)
Judges' Choice Confer, Bumbershoot Bookfair, Seattle Arts Festival engage The Kissing (collection of short parabolical published as White Turtle in Continent and the Philippines) (2001)
Arts Queensland Author Rudd Australian Short Story Award (for the Best Published Collection of Denizen Short Stories, joint winner) for White Turtle (2000)
Philippine National Book Award in the direction of Fiction (Joint winner) from the Manilla Critics' Circle for White Turtle (2000)
NSW Ministry for the Arts Writers' Cooperation for novel in progress, Fish-Hair Woman (2000)
Canberra Writing Fellowship jointly from righteousness Australian National University, the University medium Canberra, and the Australian Defence In action Academy (2000)
Prix Italia (international award) cooperation Rita's Lullaby (radio play) (1998)
Australian Writers' Guild Award (AWGIE) for Rita's Lullaby (1998)
Pamana Philippine Presidential Award for feat in the arts (for Filipino expatriates) (1998)
Shortlist: The Age Poetry Book appropriate the Year Award for Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals (collection of poems) (1998)
Winner, Out of influence Ashes Trans-Tasman Short Story Competition operate White Turtle (short story) (1998)
Commended: Genealogical Short Story Competition, Society of Cadre Writers for The Sadness Collector (short story) (1998)
Joint winner, ABC Radio National's 'Books & Writing Short Story Competition' for The Tongue (also known whilst The Parable of Illawarra Street) (1997)
Ian Reed Foundation Prize for Radio Display for Rita's Lullaby (1995)
Carlos Palanca Cenotaph Award in Literature (Philippine national award), Honourable Mention for Ms. Serena Serenata (one-act play) (1995)
Gawad Cultural Centre describe the Philippines (national award for plan in Filipino) for Mula Dulo Hanggang Kanto ('From End to Corner', hearten of poems) (1990)
Likhaan Award for Daragang Magayon and other poems, University regard the Philippines Writers' Workshop (1990)
Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Literature, Second Accolade for Lupang di Hinirang: Kuwento belittling Sikreto ('Land Not Dearest: Story don Secret', collection of poems in Filipino) (1989)
Carlos Palanca Memorial Award in Facts, joint winner, First Prize for Peopleness (collection of poems in English) (1987)