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Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin (Tagalog:; May 4, 1917 – April 29, 2004) was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his short stories and novels in the English language.
Her maternal grandmother, a Yaqui Indian curandera/healer (as was her mother) from Sonora, raised her in the Mission District of San Francisco. [ 1 ] She taught at University of California Santa Cruz , Cabrillo College , Naropa Institute , Mesa College , University of California, San Diego , Stanford University , Pacific University , and ...
"The Milk-Bottles" – A terrible smell and accumulating milk bottles cause neighbors to think a quarrelsome neighbor has murdered his wife. "Dilemma" – Two men exchange stories of doubt, one a doctor who saved a vital manuscript on sleeping sickness instead of a drunken butler in a fire, and the other a detective who saved a delinquent child ...
In 1965, the Reynolds returned to San Miguel de Allende to live. [3] Their house on Nuñez 32 soon became a familiar haunt of the artistic community, often frequented by renowned authors. [ 10 ] While Reynolds continued to write and sell science fiction stories, by 1969 his sales began to decline and several of his novels were held back during ...
A British edition of Short Stories was published between 1920 and 1959; it merged with the UK version of the West magazine in 1954 and was known as Short Stories Incorporating West. [12] The September 1950 issue of Short Stories carried Robert A. Heinlein's story Destination Moon, an adaptation of the film. This was unusual as Short Stories ...
In his newest collection of stories, Cathedral, there are a few that suggest he is moving toward a greater ease of manner and generosity of feeling; but in most of his work it's his own presence, the hard grip of his will, that is the strongest force. It's not that he imposes moral or political judgments; in that respect, he's quite self-effacing.
The growing acceptance of English as official language in the country strengthened these writers’ loyalty to the ethnic mother tongue as their medium for their art. [1] The publication of Leyte News and The Leader in the twenties, the first local papers in English, brought about the increasing legitimization of English as a medium of communication, the gradual displacement of Waray and ...
In 1984, Bryce settled down in Spain living first in Barcelona and since 1989 in Madrid.In 1997, he returned to Peru, where he currently lives. His first book Huerto Cerrado published in 1968, was a finalist for the Casa de las Américas literary prize awarded in Cuba and is a collection of short stories written in different styles and points of view about a young protagonist, Manolo, a member ...