Merlinda Bobis
Writer-performer Merlinda Bobis has received various awards and prizes for her prose, poetry and plays. Among them the Prix Italia; the Australian Writers' Guild Award and the Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize for Rita's Lullaby; the Steele Rudd Award for the Best Published Collection of Australian Short Stories; the Philippine National Book Award and the Judges’ Choice Award in the Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle for White Turtle (Australian edition) / The Kissing (US edition); the Pamana Presidential Award; and the Philippine Balagtas Award. Her first novel Banana Heart Summer was short-listed for the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal and her poetry collection Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals for The Age Poetry Book Award. Her plays have been performed in Australia, Philippines, France, China, Thailand and the Slovak Republic. Her next novel The Solemn Lantern Maker is published in March 2008. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong. She is originally from the Philippines.
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