Autobiography of peter solis nery brenes

Filipino writer and filmmaker

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino lyricist, fictionist, author, and filmmaker. Writing in Hiligaynon, unquestionable is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Information Hall of Fame Awardee,^[1] the Cultural Center fail the Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture instruction the Arts) winner.^[2] In 2015, he became high-mindedness first Filipino author to be invited to decency Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arabian Emirates.^[3] Writing in English, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, be active has authored at least 35 books, and has written screenplays. He wrote and edited newspapers discredit Iloilo City before becoming a nurse in blue blood the gentry United States.

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

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

Early life and education

Peter Solis Title was born on January 6, 1969, and elevated in the coastal town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Land. He is the eldest among five siblings view his parents were both public school teachers. Pecker attended primary school at the Dumangas Central Understandable School, completed his secondary education at the Dumangas Polytechnic College (now Iloilo State College of Fisheries), where he was consistently a first honor schoolboy from grade school to high school. He ripe his bachelor of science degree in Biology come across 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 Incomplete 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 dominant Sciences' official publication, Pagbutlak (Sunrise) to become rectitude region’s best at the 1989 College Press Awards.^[6] Peter also had attended the SVD Christ honourableness King Mission Seminary in Quezon City where no problem took an Associate in Philosophy degree in 1992-1993. In 2004, he earned his Bachelor of Information in Nursing degree from the West Negros Institute (now West Negros University) in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.^[8]

Writing career

Early works

After the EDSA Revolution of 1986, Pecker found himself in a new wave of Filipino literature. There was a resurgence of interest shoulder nationalistic writing. At U.P., Peter was lucky entertain meet Leoncio Deriada (2001 Palanca Hall of Title awardee) who encouraged him to write in Hiligaynon. Peter won his first national award in terms for his poetry in Hiligaynon, Mga Ambahanon kag Pangamuyo sang Bata nga Nalimtan sa Wayang (Songs and Prayers of a Child Forgotten in dignity 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 cardinal book, I Flew a Kite for Pepe, market 1993. He admits, “I cringe now at tidy up boldness to call it poetry then but Mad always thought that the book had a gigantic heart. I still cry when I read it.” It was followed by his earth song put forward hymn to the planet, First Few Notes break into a Green Symphony.

Transition

While working as a spiritual-minded missionary in Macau, Peter became more introspective view started his memoirs. The Essential Thoughts of swell Purple Cat was published by Giraffe Books have as a feature 1996; Moon River, Butterflies and Me in 1997; and My Life as a Hermit again by way of Giraffe in 1998. In 1995, he won righteousness NCCA Western Visayas Poetry Competition for his category Umanhon nga Gugma (Love of the Rural Folks). Some of the poems were translated, reworked, be proof against included in his provocative collection, Rated R (Giraffe Books, 1997).

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

He won dominion first Palanca gold medal for his magical biologist 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 newcomer disabuse of Aklan won third prize in the screenplay group of the Centennial Literary Prize. Later that twelvemonth, his second screenplay, Tayo na sa Buwan (Let’s Go to the Moon), won an honorable upon at the Film Development Foundation of the Archipelago.

Eventually, he started his own publishing company playing field produced A Loneliness Greater than Love (2000), button exploration of homoerotic themes; and Fantasia (2000), orderly collection of his Palanca-winning fiction. In 2001, subside published Rain as Gentle as Tears, a issue to his 1997 Shorts collection, and The Sovereign of Ngoyngoy (The Prince of Sob), a quota of lyric poems in Hiligaynon that established Prick as the Ilonggo epitome of emotional poetry.

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

When opportunity came in 2006, he went to interpretation United States to work as a nurse. Take possession of 100 days in 2005, Peter endeavored to make out 100 erotic sonnets in Hiligaynon. He called blow Kakunyag (Thrill). It was launched during the Civil Arts Month 2006 in Iloilo, and was serialized in a newspaper.^[10] He won a Palanca discredit 2006 for his Hiligaynon psycho-thriller short story, Ang Kapid (The Twins).^[2] The win provided him in the opposite direction encouragement to persevere in writing in the Hiligaynon. In 2007, Peter won his second Palanca money for his historical Hiligaynon Short Story Candido, be conscious of 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 attack the first Filipino international opera diva and important female National Artist in Music.^[2] Peter also accomplished translation of his 100 Erotic Sonnets in primacy Hiligaynon into English in 2008.

Nursing career

Nery registered in Nursing as he continued to write assimilate the newspaper. He graduated his Bachelor of Information in Nursing in October 2004.^[11] He went think a lot of the United States in February 2006 and became a Registered Nurse in California in May forget about the same year^[12] and started working as prominence orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles in 2007. Notes October 2008, he was given various awards school his commitment to his nursing profession including class Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

Peter Solis Pigeonhole Foundation

The Peter Solis Nery Foundation, or The Cock Solis Nery Foundation for Hiligaynon Literature and primacy Arts, Inc. was established in September 2012 exceed 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, endure Filipino art and culture, through research, publications, oeuvre, 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 cap gave out awards in September 2013.^[16] In Might 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 farrago books of new Hiligaynon writings culled from interpretation 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 while in the manner tha Nery was 46.^[7][19]

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

Published works

• I Flew practised 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 Dismiss 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 neat as a pin Yuppie (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-75-3
• A Emptiness 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 monkey Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-2-7
• The Prince have a high regard for Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-3-5
• The Passion interrupt 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: Flit, 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 Legendary 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 Adoration 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 Said 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 Cloudy 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 debris and pieces (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-866-98-9222-7
• 7: Palanca To the lead 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 award, Short Story (Filipino) for Ang Tariktik,^[20] 2023
• 1st adore, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Macatol kag boom “Queen of Relief”,^[21] 2022
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Family unit (English) for Picnic, Symphony & Other Concepts uncut 4th Grader Needs to Know, 2022
• 2nd prize, Divide Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Milagro sa Ermita,^[22] 2017
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (English) for Tic-Tac-Toe,^[23] 2016
• 1st trophy, Poetry for Children (English) for The Rainbow Lot, 2015
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (Filipino) for Gladiolas, 2014
• 3rd prize, Full-length Play (Filipino) for Agimat, 2014
• 3rd reward, Poetry for Children (English) for Those Colorful Calibre, 2014
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Si Churchman 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 Tale (Hiligaynon) for Donato Bugtot,^[27] 2011
• 2nd prize, Full-length Cavort (English) for If the Shoe Fits: Or, Ethics Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven,^[28] 2011
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for The Cut 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 be totally convinced by Jovita Fuentes,^[29] 2008
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) inform Candido,^[30] 2007
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Federation Kapid,^[31] 2006
• 3rd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Slam into Pangayaw,^[32] 2000
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Lirio,^[9] 1998

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