Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco (born November 17, 1976 in Manila , Philippines ) is a Filipino author.
Life
Syjuco is the son of Filipino politician Augusto Syjuco Jr. , who worked with the party of former Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo . He finished high school at Cebu International School in 1993 and graduated from Ateneo de Manila University in Manila with a degree in English literature in 2000. In between there were years of exile with his family in Canada . In 2004 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Columbia University in New York City . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide in South Australia in early 2011.
Syjuco has lived mainly in Montreal , Québec , Canada since 2004 .
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His first novel, Ilustrado, from 2008, was subsequently awarded a prize.
Prizes and awards
- 2008: Palanca Award , Philippines: Grand Prize for a work in English, Ilustrado
- 2008: Man Asian Literary Prize also for Ilustrado
- 2010: Quebec Writers' Foundation Awards , Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for Ilustrado
- 2010: nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
- 2010: New York Times Book Review and Globe & Mail Top 100 for Ilustrado
- 2011: nominated for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori (Florence) and the Swiss Jan Michalski Prize for Literature ; each on the shortlist for his first novel
- 2011: Prix Courrier international for the best book translated into French
Publications
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Illustrado . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York City, USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-374174781 .
- The enlightened ones , translated by Hannes Riffel. Klett-Kotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-93891-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Miguel Syjuco in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Premio Gregor von Rezzori
- Jan Michalski Foundation (en.)
- Courrier international (fr.)
- Audio interview with the author (en.)
- Biography Berlin Literature Festival 2011 (de.)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Syjuco, Miguel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Filipino author |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Manila , Philippines |