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GONZALES
• Néstor Vicente Madali González
(September 8, 1915 – November 28,
1999) was a Filipino novelist, short story
writer, essayist and poet. Conferred as
the National Artist of the Philippines for
Literature in 1997.
• He was born on 8 September 1915 in
Romblon, Philippines.[1] González,
however, was raised in Mansalay, a
southern town of the Philippine province
of Oriental Mindoro. González was a son
of a school supervisor and a teacher. As
a teenager, he helped his father by
delivering meat door-to-door across
provincial villages and municipalities.
•González was also a
musician. He played the
violin and even made four
guitars by hand. He earned
his first peso by playing the
violin during a Chinese
funeral in Romblon.
• González attended Mindoro High
School (now Jose J. Leido Jr.
Memorial National High School)
from 1927 to 1930. González
attended college at National
University (Manila) but he was
unable to finish his undergraduate
degree.
• His first published essay appeared in the
Philippine Graphic and his first poem in
Poetry in 1934. González made his mark in
the Philippine writing community as a
member of the Board of Advisers of
Likhaan: the University of the Philippines
Creative Writing Center, founding editor of
The Diliman Review and as the first
president of the Philippine Writers'
Association.
• N.V.M. González was
proclaimed National Artist of
the Philippines in 1997. He died
on 28 November 1999 at the
age of 84. As a National Artist,
Gonzalez was honored with a
state funeral at the Libingan ng
mga Bayani.
WORKS
Novels
•The Winds of April (1941)
•A Season of Grace (1956)
•The Bamboo Dancers (1988)
•The Land And The Rain
• The Happiest Boy in The World
Short fiction
• "The Tomato Game".1992
• A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories.
• University of the Philippines Press, 1997
• The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1993;
University of the Philippines Press, 1993
Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories.
Quezon City: University of the Philippines
Press, 1981; New Day, 1989
• Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan
Swallow, 1964
• Look, Stranger, on this Island Now.
Manila: Benipayo, 1963
• Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and
Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954;
Bookmark
Filipino Literary Classic, 1995
Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan
Swallow, 1947
Essays
• A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968–1994.
Manila: National