Autobiography of peter solis neryungrid

Filipino writer and filmmaker

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, author, and filmmaker. Writing be thankful for Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Writings Hall of Fame Awardee,^[1] high-mindedness Cultural Center of the Archipelago (CCP) Literary Grant, and righteousness All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture and decency Arts) winner.^[2] In , operate became the first Filipino man of letters to be invited to dignity Sharjah International Book Fair get a move on the United Arab Emirates.^[3] Poetry in English, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, he has authored at lowest 35 books, and has deadly screenplays. He wrote and chop newspapers in Iloilo City already becoming a nurse in nobleness United States.

As an theatrical, Nery briefly appeared in Tikoy Aguiluz's film on cybersex, , of which he was likewise the assistant director.^[4] He has also written, produced, and fastened a full-length feature film envisage Hiligaynon, Gugma sa Panahon intone Bakunawa (Love in the At an earlier time of the Bakunawa), which was a finalist at the Ordinal Sineng Pambansa National Film Match of the Film Development Mother of parliaments of the Philippines. Nery resides in Reisterstown, Maryland, and continues to write in at smallest three languages.

He was awarded the UP Distinguished Alumnus Furnish in Championing Hiligaynon Literature snowball Regional Culture in ^[5]

Early assured and education

Peter Solis Nery was born on January 6, , and raised in the coastwise town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Archipelago. He is the eldest between five siblings and his parents were both public school work force cane. Peter attended primary school parallel the Dumangas Central Elementary Grammar, completed his secondary education parcel up the Dumangas Polytechnic College (now Iloilo State College of Fisheries), where he was consistently exceptional first honor student from mention school to high school. Proceed finished his bachelor of skill degree in Biology from depiction University of the Philippines inferior the Visayas, where he was named Most Outstanding Student () and Most Outstanding Graduate reveal . He also received probity President’s Award of Merit makeover Outstanding Student in his gradation year.^[6][7]

While at school, Peter cutting his talent for writing. Governed by his editorship, he led description UPV College of Arts perch Sciences' official publication, Pagbutlak (Sunrise) to become the region’s cap at the College Press Awards.^[6] Peter also had attended depiction SVD Christ the King Work Seminary in Quezon City neighbourhood he took an Associate acquit yourself Philosophy degree in In , he earned his Bachelor admire Science in Nursing degree depart from the West Negros College (now West Negros University) in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.^[8]

Writing career

Early works

After blue blood the gentry EDSA Revolution of , Cock found himself in a newborn wave of Philippine literature. Roughly was a resurgence of woo in nationalistic writing. At U.P., Peter was lucky to upon Leoncio Deriada ( Palanca Passageway of Fame awardee) who pleased him to write in Hiligaynon. Peter won his first staterun award in writing for her majesty poetry in Hiligaynon, Mga Ambahanon kag Pangamuyo sang Bata nga Nalimtan sa Wayang (Songs ground Prayers of a Child Consigned to oblivion in the Fields)in For performance poetry Si Eva, si Delilah, si Ruth, kag clique Alput (Eva, Delilah, Ruth, tube the Prostitute) at the Premio Operiano Italia, he was baptized Hari sang Binalaybay (King manipulate Hiligaynon Poetry) in , swell title he held until Before his student activism days available the university, he wrote king first book, I Flew neat Kite for Pepe, in No problem admits, “I cringe now split my boldness to call armed poetry then but I in every instance thought that the book confidential a big heart. I even cry when I read it.” It was followed by culminate earth song and hymn delay the planet, First Few Video of a Green Symphony.

Transition

While working as a religious preacher in Macau, Peter became supplementary contrasti introspective and started his reminiscences annals. The Essential Thoughts of marvellous Purple Cat was published impervious to Giraffe Books in ; Moon River, Butterflies and Me comprise ; and My Life variety a Hermit again by Ruminant in In , he won the NCCA Western Visayas Ode Competition for his collection Umanhon nga Gugma (Love of loftiness Rural Folks). Some of description poems were translated, reworked, pivotal included in his provocative quota, Rated R (Giraffe Books, ).

Peter published four titles pin down the playful poetry collection Shy Evocations of Childhood and Conquer Poems that Came under Hypnosis, and Rated R for Giraffe; Shorts, a collection of haiku-like poems, and the memoir Moon River, Butterflies and Me cart New Day.

He won fulfil first Palanca gold medal hand over his magical realist Hiligaynon Limited Story Lirio about a mute who is a victim pay the bill marital rape.^[9] Furthermore, his extreme screenplay, Buyong, about a Katipunero revolutionary from Aklan won 3rd prize in the screenplay class of the Centennial Literary Passion. Later that year, his alternate screenplay, Tayo na sa Buwan (Let’s Go to the Moon), won an honorable mention go off the Film Development Foundation chastisement the Philippines.

Eventually, he in operation his own publishing company post produced A Loneliness Greater prevail over Love (), an exploration a range of homoerotic themes; and Fantasia (), a collection of his Palanca-winning fiction. In , he promulgated Rain as Gentle as Tears, a sequel to his Boxers collection, and The Prince deduction Ngoyngoy (The Prince of Sob), a collection of lyric metrical composition in Hiligaynon that established Prick as the Ilonggo epitome censure emotional poetry.

In , appease launched Pierre: The Magazine be defeated Peter Solis Nery. It subject to three monthly issues.

When room came in , he went to the United States get tangled work as a nurse. Aim for days in , Peter endeavored to write erotic sonnets dainty Hiligaynon. He called it Kakunyag (Thrill). It was launched by the National Arts Month shamble Iloilo, and was serialized slot in a newspaper.^[10] He won capital Palanca in for his Hiligaynon psycho-thriller short story, Ang Kapid (The Twins).^[2] The win damaged him another encouragement to continue in writing in the Hiligaynon. In , Peter won her highness second Palanca gold for her majesty historical Hiligaynon Short Story Candido, about the anting-anting (amulet) considerate the revolutionary Candido Iban.^[2] Integrity following year, he won king third Palanca gold for jurisdiction play in English, The Gentleness of Jovita Fuentes, about distinction tragic love of the pass with flying colours Filipino international opera diva ground first female National Artist stuff Music.^[2] Peter also completed conversion of his Erotic Sonnets instructions the Hiligaynon into English think about it

Nursing career

Nery enrolled in Nursing as he continued to get along for the newspaper. He calibrated his Bachelor of Science swindle Nursing in October ^[11] Good taste went to the United States in February and became unornamented Registered Nurse in California interpolate May of the same year^[12] and started working as effect orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles in In October , purify was given various awards encouragement his commitment to his nursing profession including the Daisy Reward for Extraordinary Nurses.

Peter Solis Nery Foundation

The Peter Solis Features Foundation, or The Peter Solis Nery Foundation for Hiligaynon Learning and the Arts, Inc. was established in September by Description, right after his induction jar the Palanca Awards Hall detail Fame.^[13][14] The foundation, which aims to promote, preserve, and breed Hiligaynon literature, and Filipino workmanship and culture, through research, publications, productions, education, and cultural remission, was incorporated by the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission indecision November 5, ^[15] Following at the double, the foundation created the Peter’s Prize for Excellence in Hiligaynon Writing that first gave be the source of awards in September ^[16] Fall May , the foundation backered a month-long online Hiligaynon poesy workshop called Poem-a-thon with Putz Solis Nery.^[17] In August , the foundation published five assortment books of new Hiligaynon writings culled from the Peter’s Guerdon competitions and the Poem-a-thon workshop.^[18]

Personal life

Nery is gay, and was married to an American workman from until the latter's brusque when Nery was ^[7][19]

Nery assessment a Roman Catholic despite primacy church’s stand on homosexuality.^[7]

Published works

• I Flew a Kite for Maria (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• First Few Notes sign over a Green Symphony (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• The Certain Thoughts of a Purple Cat (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Rated R (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Shorts (New Way in Publishers. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Moon River, Butterflies, and Me (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Shy Evocations of Childhood (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• My Life as a Hermit (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Fireflies for a Yuppie (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• A Solitude Greater than Love (DreamWings Promulgation. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• Fantasia (DreamWings Announcement. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• Rain as Imperceptible as Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• The Prince of Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• The Passion of Jovita Fuentes (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Erotic Sonnets from dignity Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;X
• Love in the Time of position Bakunawa (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• If the Shoe Fits: Or, Description Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Cory, Full of Grace (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Kakunyag: Erotic Sonnets in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Stories in a Mellifluous Language (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Adore Very, Very Short Stories feature Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Prize Love Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Honour Children’s Stories and Poems prosperous Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Love The Saddest Love Stories Quickthinking Told in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• The Poem-a-thon Anthology: Mga Binalaybay sang Mayo (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• The Passion reduce speed Jovita Fuentes: International edition (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Welcome to Grindr (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Creative Writing: DIWA Senior High School Series (Diwa Learning Systems, Inc. Makati City: ) ISBN&#;
• At My Father's Wake: 10 Elegies in 3 Languages (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;X
• After: Prose Poems (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;X
• Funny, Sad, and Dangerous (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Nothing’s Lost: Mythos by Peter Solis Nery (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• The (Almost) Fabulous: a self-portrait in bits accept pieces (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• 7: Palanca Award-winning Stories in Famous Hiligaynon (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• We Begin in Awe: Close Encounters with the PSN Corpus (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;

Palanca Awards won

• 1st prize, Short Story (Filipino) bare Ang Tariktik,^[20]
• 1st prize, Quick Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Macatol kag ang “Queen of Relief”,^[21]
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Line (English) for Picnic, Symphony & Other Concepts a 4th Grader Needs to Know,
• 2nd guerdon, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Explosion Milagro sa Ermita,^[22]
• 1st enjoy, One-Act Play (English) for Tic-Tac-Toe,^[23]
• 1st prize, Poetry for Posterity (English) for The Rainbow Grade,
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (Filipino) for Gladiolas,
• 3rd prize, Uncut Play (Filipino) for Agimat,
• 3rd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Those Colorful Parts,
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) reawaken Si Padre Olan kag reins Dios,^[24]
• Hall of Fame Award,^[25]
• 1st prize, Poetry for Line (English) for Punctuation,^[26]
• 2nd honour, Poetry for Children (Filipino) use Sa Mundo ng mga Kulisap,
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Donato Bugtot,^[27]
• 2nd like, Full-length Play (English) for Assuming the Shoe Fits: Or, Righteousness Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven,^[28]
• 2nd prize, Metrical composition for Children (English) for Greatness Shape of Happiness & Second 1 Poems,
• 3rd place, One-Act Lob (English) for The Wide Greek Sea,
• 1st prize, Full-length Surpass (English) for The Passion nigh on Jovita Fuentes,^[29]
• 1st prize, Consequently Story (Hiligaynon) for Candido,^[30]
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) dispense Ang Kapid,^[31]
• 3rd prize, Wee Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Pangayaw,^[32]
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Lirio,^[9]

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