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Arnold
Molina Azurin |
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Arnold
Molina Azurin has authored
three books of poetry before Leis of
Isles – Roots & Ruins, Upwind
downstream and Adios Columbus. In the
late 1960s, he received twice the Rector’s
Literary Award for Poetry at the University
of Santo Tomas where he obtained a degree,
Bachelor of Philosophy (1967).
In the early 1990s he won the first
prize in poetry and essay in the Palanca
Memorial Awards. He also won the first
prize in essay category of the Philippines
Free Press literary contest, when he
was also cited as the most outstanding
journalist contributor of the magazine.
He has been the recipient of various
writing or research grants/fellowships
from the Cultural Center of the Philippines,
University of the Philippines Creative
Writing Center, the U.P. Center for
Integrative and Development Studies,
and the International House of Japan.
He wrote the text of Asean Sculptures
published by the Association of Southeast
Nations. He has edited some literary
and cultural journals.
As a social anthropologist, Azurin has
mounted two museological exhibits at
CCP and Nayong Pilipino. His books on
Philippine political and ethnic culture
include Just Vexations Beddeng, Reinventing
the Filipino Sense of Being and Becoming
and Beyond the Cult of Dissidence in
Southern Philippines as among the 100
books selected to commemorate the Philippine
Centennial (1998),
He is a research fellow at the U.P.
Center for Integrative and Development
Studies, and a lifetime member of the
Philippine Anthropological Society,
and of the International House of Japan,
a cultural exchange center based in
Tokyo. |
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