N.V.M. Gonzalez was born Nestor Vicente Madali Gonzalez on
September 8, 1915, on Romblon, Philippines.
He studied at the Kenyon School of English and at Stanford and Columbia
universities. He began working for
English-language publications in Manila, serving as a writer for Graphic Weekly
for many years and as editor of the Manila Evening News Magazine from 1946 to
1948.
Although he never obtained a college degree, he taught
widely, first at the University of Santo Tomas and Philippine Women's
University, both in Manila; and for two decades at the University of the
Philippines, Quezon City. He also taught
as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and in the United States
at Cal State Hayward, the University of Washington, and UCLA.
He was the 1997 National Artist for Literature of the
Republic of the Philippines. Among his
books are: A Grammar of Dreams, Bread of Salt and Other Stories, The Winds of
April, Look Stranger, on This Island Now, Mindoro and Beyond, The Novel of
Justice, A Season of Grace, and the Bamboo Dancers.
He died November 28, 1999, in Manila, after suffering a
stroke on November 25. He is survived by
his wife of 57 years, Narita, four children, and five grandchildren.
Novels
The Winds of April (1941)
A Season of Grace (1956)
The Bamboo Dancers (1988)
The Land and The Rain
The Happiest Boy in the World
Short fiction
"The Tomato Game".1993
A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the
Philippines Press, 1997
The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993
Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City:
University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989
Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964
Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963
Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila:
Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classic, 1992
Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947
Essays
A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994. Manila:
National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Anvil (popular edition), 1996
Work on the Mountain (Includes The Father and the Maid,
Essays on Filipino Life and Letters and Kalutang: A Filipino in the World),
University of the Philippines Press, 1996
REFERENCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._V._M._Gonzalez
http://www.palhbooks.com/Gonzalez.html
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