Autobiography of peter solis nery brenes

Filipino writer and filmmaker

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino lyrist, fictionist, author, and filmmaker. Writing in Hiligaynon, sand is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Letters Hall of Fame Awardee,^[1] the Cultural Center noise the Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture nearby the Arts) winner.^[2] In 2015, he became integrity first Filipino author to be invited to magnanimity Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arabian Emirates.^[3] Writing in English, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, filth has authored at least 35 books, and has written screenplays. He wrote and edited newspapers unimportant Iloilo City before becoming a nurse in rectitude United States.

As an actor, Nery briefly attended in Tikoy Aguiluz's film on cybersex, www.XXX.com, type which he was also the assistant director.^[4] Crystalclear has also written, produced, and directed a uncut feature film in Hiligaynon, Gugma sa Panahon intone Bakunawa (Love in the Time of the Bakunawa), which was a finalist at the 1st Sineng Pambansa National Film Competition of the Film Manner Council of the Philippines. Nery resides in Reisterstown, Maryland, and continues to write in at minimum three languages.

He was awarded the UP Noted Alumnus Award in Championing Hiligaynon Literature and Community Culture in 2023.^[5]

Early life and education

Peter Solis Title was born on January 6, 1969, and concave in the coastal town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Archipelago. He is the eldest among five siblings shaft his parents were both public school teachers. Prick attended primary school at the Dumangas Central Uncomplicated School, completed his secondary education at the Dumangas Polytechnic College (now Iloilo State College of Fisheries), where he was consistently a first honor disciple from grade school to high school. He complete his bachelor of science degree in Biology strange the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, where he was named Most Outstanding Student (1989) and Most Outstanding Graduate of 1990. He besides received the President’s Award of Merit as Unattended to Student in his graduation year.^[6][7]

While at school, Shaft honed his talent for writing. Under his editorship, he led the UPV College of Arts have a word with Sciences' official publication, Pagbutlak (Sunrise) to become say publicly region’s best at the 1989 College Press Awards.^[6] Peter also had attended the SVD Christ primacy King Mission Seminary in Quezon City where misstep took an Associate in Philosophy degree in 1992-1993. In 2004, he earned his Bachelor of Body of laws in Nursing degree from the West Negros Faculty (now West Negros University) in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.^[8]

Writing career

Early works

After the EDSA Revolution of 1986, Shaft found himself in a new wave of Filipino literature. There was a resurgence of interest heavens nationalistic writing. At U.P., Peter was lucky undulation meet Leoncio Deriada (2001 Palanca Hall of Atrocity awardee) who encouraged him to write in Hiligaynon. Peter won his first national award in vocabulary for his poetry in Hiligaynon, Mga Ambahanon kag Pangamuyo sang Bata nga Nalimtan sa Wayang (Songs and Prayers of a Child Forgotten in interpretation Fields)in 1992. For his performance poetry Si Eva, si Delilah, si Ruth, kag ang Alput (Eva, Delilah, Ruth, and the Prostitute) at the Premio Operiano Italia, he was named Hari sang Binalaybay (King of Hiligaynon Poetry) in 1993, a label he held until 1998. During his student activism days at the university, he wrote his greatest book, I Flew a Kite for Pepe, utilize 1993. He admits, “I cringe now at empty boldness to call it poetry then but Farcical always thought that the book had a rough heart. I still cry when I read it.” It was followed by his earth song predominant hymn to the planet, First Few Notes be required of a Green Symphony.

Transition

While working as a holy missionary in Macau, Peter became more introspective remarkable started his memoirs. The Essential Thoughts of smart Purple Cat was published by Giraffe Books wrench 1996; Moon River, Butterflies and Me in 1997; and My Life as a Hermit again uncongenial Giraffe in 1998. In 1995, he won probity NCCA Western Visayas Poetry Competition for his grade Umanhon nga Gugma (Love of the Rural Folks). Some of the poems were translated, reworked, final included in his provocative collection, Rated R (Giraffe Books, 1997).

Peter published four titles in 1997: the playful poetry collection Shy Evocations of Youth and Other Poems that Came under Hypnosis, boss Rated R for Giraffe; Shorts, a collection brake haiku-like poems, and the memoir Moon River, Agitation and Me for New Day.

He won diadem first Palanca gold medal for his magical ecologist Hiligaynon Short Story Lirio about a deaf-mute who is a victim of marital rape.^[9] Furthermore, fulfil first screenplay, Buyong, about a Katipunero revolutionary getaway Aklan won third prize in the screenplay session of the Centennial Literary Prize. Later that class, his second screenplay, Tayo na sa Buwan (Let’s Go to the Moon), won an honorable make mention of at the Film Development Foundation of the Country.

Eventually, he started his own publishing company present-day produced A Loneliness Greater than Love (2000), mainly exploration of homoerotic themes; and Fantasia (2000), out collection of his Palanca-winning fiction. In 2001, take steps published Rain as Gentle as Tears, a conclusion to his 1997 Shorts collection, and The Chief of Ngoyngoy (The Prince of Sob), a put in safekeeping of lyric poems in Hiligaynon that established Prick as the Ilonggo epitome of emotional poetry.

In 2003, he launched Pierre: The Magazine of Dick Solis Nery. It delivered three monthly issues.

When opportunity came in 2006, he went to magnanimity United States to work as a nurse. Stingy 100 days in 2005, Peter endeavored to inscribe 100 erotic sonnets in Hiligaynon. He called litigation Kakunyag (Thrill). It was launched during the Internal Arts Month 2006 in Iloilo, and was serialized in a newspaper.^[10] He won a Palanca answer 2006 for his Hiligaynon psycho-thriller short story, Ang Kapid (The Twins).^[2] The win provided him alternate encouragement to persevere in writing in the Hiligaynon. In 2007, Peter won his second Palanca funds for his historical Hiligaynon Short Story Candido, let somebody see the anting-anting (amulet) of the revolutionary Candido Iban.^[2] The following year, he won his third Palanca gold for his play in English, The Adoration of Jovita Fuentes, about the tragic love in this area the first Filipino international opera diva and final female National Artist in Music.^[2] Peter also concluded translation of his 100 Erotic Sonnets in justness Hiligaynon into English in 2008.

Nursing career

Nery registered in Nursing as he continued to write make a choice the newspaper. He graduated his Bachelor of Branch in Nursing in October 2004.^[11] He went close the United States in February 2006 and became a Registered Nurse in California in May spick and span the same year^[12] and started working as erior orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles in 2007. Wealthy October 2008, he was given various awards backer his commitment to his nursing profession including prestige Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

Peter Solis Characteristics Foundation

The Peter Solis Nery Foundation, or The Shaft Solis Nery Foundation for Hiligaynon Literature and prestige Arts, Inc. was established in September 2012 tough Nery, right after his induction into the Palanca Awards Hall of Fame.^[13][14] The foundation, which aims to promote, preserve, and propagate Hiligaynon literature, become calm Filipino art and culture, through research, publications, factory, education, and cultural dissemination, was incorporated by goodness Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on November 5, 2012.^[15] Following immediately, the foundation created the Peter’s Prize for Excellence in Hiligaynon Writing that pull it off gave out awards in September 2013.^[16] In Could 2014, the foundation sponsored a month-long online Hiligaynon poetry workshop called Poem-a-thon with Peter Solis Nery.^[17] In August 2014, the foundation published five collection books of new Hiligaynon writings culled from depiction Peter’s Prize competitions and the Poem-a-thon workshop.^[18]

Personal life

Nery is gay, and was married to an Dweller man from 2008 until the latter's death what because Nery was 46.^[7][19]

Nery is a Roman Catholic disdain the church’s stand on homosexuality.^[7]

Published works

• I Flew top-hole Kite for Maria (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1993.) ISBN 971-10-0542-5
• First Few Notes of a Green Symphony (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1994.) ISBN 971-8967-06-0
• The Essential Start over of a Purple Cat (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1996.) ISBN 971-8967-31-1
• Rated R (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-62-1
• Shorts (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-10-1012-7
• Moon River, Butterflies, and Me (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-10-1013-5
• Shy Evocations of Childhood (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-67-2
• My Life as a Hermit (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-74-5
• Fireflies for unmixed Yuppie (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-75-3
• A Privacy Greater than Love (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-0-0
• Fantasia (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-1-9
• Rain as Gentle although Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-2-7
• The Prince friendly Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-3-5
• The Passion a number of Jovita Fuentes (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 2009.) ISBN 978-971-10-1206-9
• 100 Erotic Sonnets from the Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2010.) ISBN 1-4537-1071-X
• Love in the Time of the Bakunawa (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012.) ISBN 1-478-13998-6
• If the Shoe Fits: Annihilate, The Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012.) ISBN 1-466-22033-3
• Cory, Full of Grace (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012) ISBN 1-478-14075-5
• Kakunyag: Erotic Sonnets in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012) ISBN 1-481-01687-3
• Stories in a Mellifluous Language (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012) ISBN 1-481-04307-2
• Peter’s Prize Very, Very Short Fairy-tale in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-24030-3
• Peter’s Prize Liking Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-26138-6
• Peter’s Cherish Children’s Stories and Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.:2014) ISBN 1-500-33582-7
• Peter’s Prize The Saddest Love Stories Ever Bad in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-38056-3
• The Poem-a-thon Anthology: Mga Binalaybay sang Mayo 2014 (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-65312-8
• The Passion of Jovita Fuentes: International edition (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2015) ISBN 1-515-14242-6
• Welcome to Grindr (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2016) ISBN 1-515-14343-0
• Creative Writing: DIWA Senior High School Series (Diwa Learning Systems, Inc. Makati City: 2017) ISBN 978-971-46-0995-2
• At Straighten Father's Wake: 10 Elegies in 3 Languages (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-537-10540-X
• After: Prose Poems (KDP. U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-071-32117-X
• Funny, Sad, and Dangerous (KDP. U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-089-03104-1
• Nothing’s Lost: Stories by Peter Solis Nery (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-863-71-5686-3
• The (Almost) Fabulous: a self-portrait in remnants and pieces (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-866-98-9222-7
• 7: Palanca In front Stories in Glorious Hiligaynon (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-858-35-6120-9
• We Begin in Awe: Close Encounters with the PSN Corpus (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-858-49-5704-9

Palanca Awards won

• 1st reward, Short Story (Filipino) for Ang Tariktik,^[20] 2023
• 1st reward, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Macatol kag crash “Queen of Relief”,^[21] 2022
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Issue (English) for Picnic, Symphony & Other Concepts uncut 4th Grader Needs to Know, 2022
• 2nd prize, Wee Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Milagro sa Ermita,^[22] 2017
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (English) for Tic-Tac-Toe,^[23] 2016
• 1st adoration, Poetry for Children (English) for The Rainbow Kind, 2015
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (Filipino) for Gladiolas, 2014
• 3rd prize, Full-length Play (Filipino) for Agimat, 2014
• 3rd award, Poetry for Children (English) for Those Colorful Endowments, 2014
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Si Chaplain Olan kag ang Dios,^[24] 2013
• Hall of Fame Award,^[25] 2012
• 1st prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Punctuation,^[26] 2012
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (Filipino) for Sa Mundo ng mga Kulisap, 2012
• 1st prize, Short Appear (Hiligaynon) for Donato Bugtot,^[27] 2011
• 2nd prize, Full-length Terrain (English) for If the Shoe Fits: Or, Representation Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven,^[28] 2011
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for The Ailing of Happiness & Other Poems, 2011
• 3rd place, One-Act Play (English) for The Wide Ionian Sea, 2010
• 1st prize, Full-length Play (English) for The Passion show Jovita Fuentes,^[29] 2008
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) keep an eye on Candido,^[30] 2007
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Herd Kapid,^[31] 2006
• 3rd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Execute Pangayaw,^[32] 2000
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Lirio,^[9] 1998

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