Conversations with Danton Remoto: Pioneer of Gay Writing in the Philippines
Schedule
Sat Aug 20 2022 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Location
Philippine Expressions Bookshop | Los Angeles, CA
About this Event
Danton Remoto presents Riverrun, a coming-of-age novel about a young gay man growing up in a colourful and complex dictatorship. Shaped in the form of a memoir, it glides from provincial barrio to modern Manila to cosmopolitan London. It is told in the form of vignettes, flash fiction, recipes, a feature article, poems and vivid songs. The novel was published by Penguin Random House Singapore to critical and commercial acclaim. It has been picked up as a required reading at some universities in the United States and the Philippines.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Danton Remoto was a Fulbright scholar at Rutgers University and a British Council scholar at the University of Stirling. He was a resident fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Arts Colony. He was also a literature fellow at the Cambridge University Summer Seminar. His latest book is Riverrun, A Novel, from Penguin Random House. He has also worked as Head of School-English and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and Head of Communications at the United Nations Development Program, as well as Dean and President of The Manila Times College. He also had a daily radio-TV show that ran for six years and he has been writing columns for the Philippine press since 1990. He is writing his second novel as well as his memoirs.
REVIEWS
“I am a fan of the works of Danton Remoto.” - Junot Diaz, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Set during the Marcos years, rich in childhood memories of local customs, myths and food. A compelling and entertaining coming-of-age memoir about a Filipino young man’s discovery of his sexuality.” - Suchen Christine Lim, Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize and the South East Asia Write Award
“Danton Remoto is an accomplished writer whose fiction is marked by elegant and intense language. I am also impressed with the social concern in his writing, wrought well in images so clear it is like seeing pebbles resting at the bottom of a pond.” - Sir Stephen Spender, Winner of the Golden PEN Award, Appointed as United States Poet Laureate
“Danton Remoto is such a wonderful writer. In Riverrun: A Novel, he writes about the tropical Catholic magic that saves and destroys.” - Tiphanie Yanique, Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and the Flaherty Dunnan Prize for the novel Land of Love and Drowning
This Book Talk Series is part of the ongoing outreach program of Philippine Expressions Bookshop in order to increase the visibility of Filipino American and Filipino Authors, Musicians and Visual Artists in the American scene.
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Where is it happening?
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