Bienvenido Santos Biography -Life Story and Famous Works Of The Writer

Here’s the Bienvenido Santos biography, a Filipino-American writer.

BIENVENIDO SANTOS BIOGRAPHY – A writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction is Filipino-American Bienvenido Santos.

Filipino-American Bienvenido Santos was born and raied in Tondo, Manila on March 22, 1911. He pioneered Asian-American writers being able to live in the United States for many years. He studied creative writing at the University of the Philippines and in the same institution, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree.

In 1941, he became a pensionado or scholar at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University.

Here are some of his achievements:

Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa
University of Iowa’s Fulbright exchange professor
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature
Several Palanca awards
American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for his “Scent Of Apples”
honorary doctorate degrees in humanities and letters from the University of the Philippines and Bicol University
honorary doctorate degree in humane letters from Wichita State University where he served as a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Writer

Here are some of his famous works:

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