Gina Apostol

thumb|right|Gina Apostol Gina Apostol (born 1963) s a Filipino-born writer based in the United States. She is the author of five novels, among them Insurrecto, named by Publishers Weekly one of the Ten Best Books of 2018, and her most recent, La Tercera, selected an Editors’ Choice of the New York Times. She has been awarded the Rome Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and two Philippine National Book Awards, among other honors, fellowships, and residencies. She grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, in the Philippines, and lives in New York City and western Massachusetts. Quotes I write in English because your country raped mine. 1890s Gina Apostol's official blog Our multiple languages are our form of existence, deep and mired in Filipino reality. A Microinterview with Gina Apostol The essence of a country like the Philippines is that it seems to exist in translation—a series of textual mediations must be unraveled in order to reveal who or what it is. A Microinterview with Gina Apostol The Believer The Philippines... has made art in English from seeds of violence. A Microinterview with Gina Apostol The Believer The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals. Insurrecto (2018) Citizenship to me is not a real thing, but art is. But it's the mirage that kills. Gina Apostol's official blog We never see ourselves as others see us. Even in the mirror, we see ourselves backward. A Microinterview with Gina Apostol The Believer External links Category:1963 births Category:Living people