Alfred A. Yuson, also known as Krip Yuson (born 1945), is a Filipino author of novels, poetry and short stories.

Career

Early in his career, Yuson received a writing fellowship to attend the National Writers Workshop in

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in 1968. Yuson also has a Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award and a Catholic Mass Media Award (CMMA) Award for Best Screenplay. He has been a documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter, as well as a book, magazine and newspaper editor and designer. In 1988, he collaborated with cinematographer Ernesto Enrique on the documentary ''A Filipino Pilgrimage to Medjugorje'', produced by Troika Video Productions, which was broadcast on

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on March 24, 1988. Yuson was also a Fellow at the International Writing Program in Iowa City, U.S. in 1978; the ''International Poetry Conference'' at the

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in 1979; the ''Cambridge Seminar'',

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, in 1989; the ''International Writers Retreat'' at

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, Scotland, in 1990; The

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in 2001 and 2006; and the

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in 2006. He has also participated in many other literary conferences, seminars and festivals in Japan, China,

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, Scotland,

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. He is a founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council, Creative Writing Foundation, Inc. and Manila Critics Circle, and is currently Chairman of the Writers Union of the Philippines. He also serves as Philippines Editor for ''MANOA: A Pacific Journal of International Writing'', published by the

. A documentary filmmaker and scriptwriter, he is a board member of the Movie and Television Ratings and Classification Board in the

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. Yuson currently writes a literature and culture column for

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. He also teaches fiction and poetry at

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, where he holds the ''Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair in Creative Writing.'' His two novels, '' The Great Philippine Jungle Café'' and '' Voyeurs & Savages'' are studies of Philippine culture.

Awards and nominations

His works have won several literary distinctions, the most recent of which include the ''Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan'' (Stalwart of Art and Culture) award from the City of

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in June 2003, and a

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grant for residency at the ''

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'' in Italy in 2003. Yuson was conferred with the

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in 1992 for lifetime achievement, and has been elevated to the Hall of Fame of the

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, the Philippines' most prestigious literary distinction. "The Music Child" by Alfred A. Yuson is among 5 works shortlisted for the second (2008)

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, which was announced at a

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ceremony on November 13, 2008.

Writings

His bibliography includes the poetry collections: ''Sea Serpent'', (Monsoon Press, 1980), ''Trading in Mermaids'' (Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1993), ''Mothers Like Elephants'' ( Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2000), ''Hairtrigger Loves: 50 Poems on Woman'' (

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Press, 2002), and the translation, ''Love's A Vice / Bisyo'' and ''Pag-Ibig: Translations into English of 60 Poems by Mike L. Bigornia'' (National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2004).

References

External links

Read "Luhod Lang" by Krip YusonLuto, Linis, LabaThe Word on Paradise
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