Amado Angelo Rodriguez Lacuesta (a.k.a. Sarge Lacuesta) is a
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writer
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, and winner of several awards for his short stories, including the
Philippine Graphic Award, the
Palanca Memorial Award and the
NVM Gonzalez Awards.
Career
His first collection of short stories, ''
Life Before X and Other Stories'', published in 2000 by the
niversity of the Philippines Press won the
Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award and the
Manila Critics' Circle National Book Award. His second collection, ''White Elephants: Stories'', published in 2005 by Anvil Manila, also won the National Book Award. His third collection, ''Flames and Other Stories'' was published by Anvil in 2009.
As an editor, Lacuesta has edited the books ''
Latitude: Writing from the Philippines and Scotland'' (Anvil Manila 2005) and ''
Fourteen Love Stories'' (University of the Philippines Press 2006). He is also the current literary editor of ''The Philippines Free Press''.
Lacuesta is also the recipient of several local and international grants and writing fellowships, among them the UP National Writer's Workshop in Quezon City, Philippines (1992), the
Silliman National Writers Workshop The Silliman University National Writers Workshop (SUNWW) is an annual creative writing workshop that was established in 1962 by the late Edilberto K. Tiempo and National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo of Silliman University.
The SUNWW is th ...
in Dumaguete, Philippines (1992), The Writer's Retreat at Hawthornden Castle in Lasswade, Scotland (2003) and The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA (2007).
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Filipino male short story writers
Filipino short story writers
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