Miguel Syjuco

Miguel Syjuco ( born November 17, 1976 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino author.

Life

Syjuco is the son of Philippine politician Augusto Syjuco Jr., who worked with the party of the former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo. He finished high school in 1993 at the Cebu International School and gained a degree in English Literature at the Ateneo de Manila University in Manila in 2000. Between were years of exile along with his family in Canada. In 2004 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) from Columbia University in New York City. He received a doctorate in phil. at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide in South Australia in early 2011.

Syjuco lives (2012 ) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Work

His first novel Ilustrado from 2008 was awarded a prize in the sequence.

Prizes and awards

  • 2008: Palanca Award, the Philippines: Great price for a work in English, Ilustrado
  • 2008: Man Asian Literary Prize also for Ilustrado
  • 2010: Quebec Writers' Foundation Awards, subsections Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for Ilustrado
  • 2010: nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
  • 2010: New York Times Book Review and the Globe & Mail Top 100 for Ilustrado
  • 2011: Premio Gregor von Rezzori, Florence and the Swiss Jan Michalski Prize for Literature; respectively on the selection lists for his debut novel
  • 2011: Prix Courrier International for the best book to be translated into French

Publications

  • Illustrado. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York City, USA 2010, ISBN 978-0-374174781. The Enlightened One, translated by Hannes Riffel. Klett- Kotta Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-93891-3.
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