Fiction as Allegiance

A paper I wrote sometime ago. http://www.thepoc.net/features/lintech/fiction-as-allegiance-an-allegation

"After the body..." is a National Book Awards finalist!

32nd National Book Awards finalists Announced The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Manila Critics Circle (MCC) are pleased to announce the finalists for this year’s National Book Awards. 32nd NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS For Books Published in 2012 Literary Division Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel in a Foreign Language 1. Agueda: A Ballad of Stone and Wind, by Anna Maria L. Harper, designed by Robbie Villegas (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House) 2. In My Mother’s House, by Joni Cham, designed by Lolita M. Calvo (Central Book Supply and De La Salle University) 3. La India, or Island of the Disappeared, by Rosario Cruz-Lucero, designed by Zenaida N. Ebalan (University of the Philippines Press) 4. Margosatubig: The Story of Salagunting, by Ramon L. Muzones, translated by Ma. Cecilia Locsin-Nava, designed by Karl Fredrick M. Castro (Ateneo de Manila University Press) 5. The Leprous Bishop, by Gabriel Miró, translated by Marlon James Sales, designed by Felix Mago Miguel (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House) Cirilo F. Bautista Prize for Short Fiction in the English Language 1. A Very Far Place: Tales of Tawi-Tawi, by H. Arlo Nimmo, designed by Karl Fredrick M. Castro (Ateneo de Manila University Press) 2. After the Body Displaces Water, by Daryll Delgado, designed by Adam David (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House)