The character is Simoun in EL FILI portrays his/her qualities and mindset. The story must be within the present context of the country.
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ABOUT LUIS H. FRANCIA
Luis H. Francia was born and grew up in Manila, where he obtained his B.A. in humanities from the Ateneo de Manila University—whose most distinguished alumnus was José Rizal. He teaches Filipino language and culture at the Asian/Pacific/American Studies program of New York University, Asian-American literature at Hunter College, as well as creative writing at the City University of Hong Kong. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
He has written several books, the most recent one being The Beauty of Ghosts (2010), a collection of poems about the Filipino immigrant experience in the United States. Other publications include A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos (2010); Museum of Absences, a collection of poems (2004); and the semiautobiographical Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001), winner of both the 2002 PEN Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers Workshop Literary awards. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean (1993), an anthology of Philippine literature in English; co-editor of the literary anthology, Flippin’: Filipinos on America (1996); and of Vestiges of War (2002), an anthology of creative and scholarly works dealing with the 1899 Philippine-American War.
He is included in several collections, among them the poetry anthology Language for a New Century (2008), and the Library of America’s Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (2009). He and his wife, art historian and curator Midori Yamamura, live in Jackson Heights in New York City.