Poet and University Professor Emeritus Prof. Gémino H. Abad won the Foreign Author Prize at the Premio Feronia - Citta di Fiano 2009. The prize will be conferred on him during a nomination ceremony on July 11 at the Castle of Fiano in Rome, Italy, along with this year’s other winners.
Prof. Abad will also be one of the guests of honor at the 2009 Mediterranean International Festival of Literature and the Arts, also in Rome, where Dove le parole non si spezzano (Where No Words Break), a collection of his poems translated into Italian, will be launched.
The Premio Feronia, which is administered by the town of Fiano in Rome and sponsored by the Associazione Culturale Allegorein, a leading cultural association in Italy, was established in 1992 to recognize innovative literary works by both established and upcoming authors in Italy, free of any commercial considerations. The prize recognizes works in three categories: poetry, fiction, and criticism, and a special prize for foreign authors.
Previous recipients of the Foreign Author Prize include American poet Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), and Nobel Prize-winning authors Günter Grass and J.M. Coetzee.
Prof. Gémino H. Abad has written more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction and criticism including Fugitive Emphasis, The Space Between, Orion’s Belt and Other Writings, and Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry. He also edited the historical anthologies of Philippine poetry in English Man of Earth (with Edna Z. Manlapaz), A Native Clearing, and A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, ’60s to the ’90s.
His latest anthologies, Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino Short Stories in English 1956 to 1972 and Our Scene So Fair: Filipino Poetry in English 1905 to 1955, were both published by the UP Press.
He is an active member of Board of Advisers of the UP Institute of Creative Writing (ICW) and continues to teach creative writing at the College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman.
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