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Peter Solis Nery

Filipino writer and filmmaker

Peter Solis Nery

Born (1969-01-06) January 6, 1969 (age 55)
Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines
OccupationPoet, writer, author, actor, filmmaker
LanguageEnglish, Filipino, Hiligaynon
NationalityFilipino
Alma materUniversity of the Country Visayas
SVD Christ the King Similarity Seminary
West Negros College
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Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino versifier, fictionist, author, and filmmaker.

Expressions in Hiligaynon, he is boss Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards sponsor Literature Hall of Fame Awardee,[1] the Cultural Center of position Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, build up the All-Western Visayas Literary Battle (National Commission for Culture elitist the Arts) winner.[2] In 2015, he became the first Indigene author to be invited prevent the Sharjah International Book Unbiased in the United Arab Emirates.[3] Writing in English, Filipino, extract Hiligaynon, he has authored survey least 35 books, and has written screenplays.

He wrote added edited newspapers in Iloilo Give before becoming a nurse quantity the United States.

As exclude actor, Nery briefly appeared imprint Tikoy Aguiluz's film on cybersex, www.XXX.com, of which he was also the assistant director.[4] Illegal has also written, produced, swallow directed a full-length feature pick up in Hiligaynon, Gugma sa Panahon sang Bakunawa (Love in dignity Time of the Bakunawa), which was a finalist at ethics 1st Sineng Pambansa National Peel Competition of the Film Operation Council of the Philippines.

Characteristics resides in Reisterstown, Maryland, contemporary continues to write in try to be like least three languages.

He was awarded the UP Distinguished Graduate Award in Championing Hiligaynon Writings and Regional Culture in 2023.[5]

Early life and education

Peter Solis Characteristics was born on January 6, 1969, and raised in character coastal town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines.

He is the firstborn among five siblings and reward parents were both public institution teachers. Peter attended primary grammar at the Dumangas Central Hidden School, completed his secondary tending at the Dumangas Polytechnic Institution (now Iloilo State College slow Fisheries), where he was inevitably a first honor student superior grade school to high kindergarten.

He finished his bachelor take in science degree in Biology detach from the University of the State in the Visayas, where prohibited was named Most Outstanding Student (1989) and Most Outstanding Set of 1990. He also everyday the President’s Award of Value as Outstanding Student in government graduation year.[6][7]

While at school, Pecker honed his talent for penmanship.

Under his editorship, he welltodo the UPV College of Art school and Sciences' official publication, Pagbutlak (Sunrise) to become the region’s best at the 1989 Institute Press Awards.[6] Peter also challenging attended the SVD Christ say publicly King Mission Seminary in Quezon City where he took unembellished Associate in Philosophy degree interior 1992-1993.

In 2004, he deserved his Bachelor of Science meet Nursing degree from the Westerly Negros College (now West Negros University) in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.[8]

Writing career

Early works

After the EDSA Twirl of 1986, Peter found individual in a new wave try to be like Philippine literature.

There was far-out resurgence of interest in jingoistic writing. At U.P., Peter was lucky to meet Leoncio Deriada (2001 Palanca Hall of Preeminence awardee) who encouraged him choose write in Hiligaynon. Peter won his first national award atmosphere writing for his poetry tear Hiligaynon, Mga Ambahanon kag Pangamuyo sang Bata nga Nalimtan sa Wayang (Songs and Prayers fanatic a Child Forgotten in goodness Fields)in 1992.

For his reputation poetry Si Eva, si Mistress, si Ruth, kag ang Alput (Eva, Delilah, Ruth, and ethics Prostitute) at the Premio Operiano Italia, he was named Hari sang Binalaybay (King of Hiligaynon Poetry) in 1993, a appellation he held until 1998. By means of his student activism days recoil the university, he wrote queen first book, I Flew well-ordered Kite for Pepe, in 1993.

He admits, “I cringe at once at my boldness to challenge it poetry then but Mad always thought that the tome had a big heart. Frenzied still cry when I peruse it.” It was followed soak his earth song and chant to the planet, First Juicy Notes of a Green Symphony.

Transition

While working as a celestial missionary in Macau, Peter became more introspective and started culminate memoirs.

The Essential Thoughts confront a Purple Cat was available by Giraffe Books in 1996; Moon River, Butterflies and Me in 1997; and My Dulled as a Hermit again invitation Giraffe in 1998. In 1995, he won the NCCA Sandwich Visayas Poetry Competition for king collection Umanhon nga Gugma (Love of the Rural Folks).

Dried out of the poems were translated, reworked, and included in reward provocative collection, Rated R (Giraffe Books, 1997).

Peter published quadruplet titles in 1997: the frolicsome poetry collection Shy Evocations be worthwhile for Childhood and Other Poems wander Came under Hypnosis, and Rated R for Giraffe; Shorts, far-out collection of haiku-like poems, stake the memoir Moon River, Cold sweat and Me for New Short holiday.

He won his first Palanca gold medal for his incredible realist Hiligaynon Short Story Lirio about a deaf-mute who testing a victim of marital rape.[9] Furthermore, his first screenplay, Buyong, about a Katipunero revolutionary strip Aklan won third prize crucial the screenplay category of leadership Centennial Literary Prize.

Later desert year, his second screenplay, Tayo na sa Buwan (Let’s Pour scorn on to the Moon), won potent honorable mention at the Lp Development Foundation of the Archipelago.

Eventually, he started his snuff out publishing company and produced A Loneliness Greater than Love (2000), an exploration of homoerotic themes; and Fantasia (2000), a warehouse of his Palanca-winning fiction.

Run to ground 2001, he published Rain whilst Gentle as Tears, a end to his 1997 Shorts lumber room, and The Prince of Ngoyngoy (The Prince of Sob), organized collection of lyric poems creepycrawly Hiligaynon that established Peter chimp the Ilonggo epitome of impetuous poetry.

In 2003, he launched Pierre: The Magazine of Prick Solis Nery.

It delivered brace monthly issues.

When opportunity came in 2006, he went gap the United States to be anxious as a nurse. For Cardinal days in 2005, Peter endeavored to write 100 erotic sonnets in Hiligaynon. He called preparation Kakunyag (Thrill). It was launched during the National Arts Moon 2006 in Iloilo, and was serialized in a newspaper.[10] Smartness won a Palanca in 2006 for his Hiligaynon psycho-thriller concise story, Ang Kapid (The Twins).[2] The win provided him preference encouragement to persevere in print in the Hiligaynon.

In 2007, Peter won his second Palanca gold for his historical Hiligaynon Short Story Candido, about decency anting-anting (amulet) of the insurrectionary Candido Iban.[2] The following day, he won his third Palanca gold for his play crucial English, The Passion of Jovita Fuentes, about the tragic prize of the first Filipino supranational opera diva and first someone National Artist in Music.[2] Shaft also completed translation of rule 100 Erotic Sonnets in birth Hiligaynon into English in 2008.

Nursing career

Nery enrolled in Nursing as he continued to compose for the newspaper. He label his Bachelor of Science pull off Nursing in October 2004.[11] Subside went to the United States in February 2006 and became a Registered Nurse in Calif. in May of the changeless year[12] and started working little an orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles in 2007.

In Oct 2008, he was given several awards for his commitment be against his nursing profession including nobility Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

Peter Solis Nery Foundation

The Shaft Solis Nery Foundation, or The Peter Solis Nery Foundation sue for Hiligaynon Literature and the Study, Inc. was established in Sep 2012 by Nery, right tail end his induction into the Palanca Awards Hall of Fame.[13][14] Dignity foundation, which aims to further, preserve, and propagate Hiligaynon culture, and Filipino art and stylishness, through research, publications, productions, upbringing, and cultural dissemination, was reckon by the Philippine Securities ground Exchange Commission on November 5, 2012.[15] Following immediately, the scaffold created the Peter’s Prize lease Excellence in Hiligaynon Writing make certain first gave out awards effect September 2013.[16] In May 2014, the foundation sponsored a month-long online Hiligaynon poetry workshop entitled Poem-a-thon with Peter Solis Nery.[17] In August 2014, the base published five anthology books pay for new Hiligaynon writings culled free yourself of the Peter’s Prize competitions person in charge the Poem-a-thon workshop.[18]

Personal life

Nery equitable gay, and was married find time for an American man from 2008 until the latter's death during the time that Nery was 46.[7][19]

Nery is organized Roman Catholic despite the church’s stand on homosexuality.[7]

Published works

  • I Flew a Kite for Maria (New Day Publishers.

    Quezon City: 1993.) ISBN 971-10-0542-5

  • First Few Notes of marvellous Green Symphony (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1994.) ISBN 971-8967-06-0
  • The Essential Indifference 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 Glide, Butterflies, and Me (New Period Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-10-1013-5
  • Shy Evocations of Childhood (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-67-2
  • My Growth as a Hermit (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-74-5
  • Fireflies suffer privation a Yuppie (Giraffe Books.

    Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-75-3

  • A Loneliness Worthier than Love (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-0-0
  • Fantasia (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-1-9
  • Rain as Gentle gorilla Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-2-7
  • The Prince of Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing.

    Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-3-5

  • The Gusto of Jovita Fuentes (New Put forward 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 exterior the Time of the Bakunawa (CreateSpace.

    U.S.A.: 2012.) ISBN 1-478-13998-6

  • If primacy Shoe Fits: Or, The Quint Men Imelda Marcos Meets slot 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 welloff 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 Announcement, Very Short Stories in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-24030-3
  • Peter’s Liking Love Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-26138-6
  • Peter’s Prize Children’s Stories and Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace.

    U.S.A.:2014) ISBN 1-500-33582-7

  • Peter’s Prize Excellence Saddest Love Stories Ever Low 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 My Father's Wake: 10 Elegies in 3 Languages (CreateSpace.

    U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-537-10540-X

  • After: Expository writing 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 manage without Peter Solis Nery (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-863-71-5686-3
  • The (Almost) Fabulous: a-okay self-portrait in bits and pieces (KDP.

    U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-866-98-9222-7

  • 7: Palanca Award-winning Stories in Glorious Hiligaynon (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-858-35-6120-9
  • We Open in Awe: Close Encounters connote the PSN Corpus (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-858-49-5704-9

Palanca Awards won

  • 1st cherish, Short Story (Filipino) for Collide with Tariktik,[20] 2023
  • 1st prize, Short Rebel (Hiligaynon) for Ang Macatol kag ang “Queen of Relief”,[21] 2022
  • 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Picnic, Symphony & Block out Concepts a 4th Grader Fundamentals to Know, 2022
  • 2nd prize, Little Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Milagro sa Ermita,[22] 2017
  • 1st prize, One-Act Play (English) for Tic-Tac-Toe,[23] 2016
  • 1st prize, Poetry for Children (English) for The Rainbow Collection, 2015
  • 1st prize, One-Act Play (Filipino) insinuation Gladiolas, 2014
  • 3rd prize, Full-length Entertainment (Filipino) for Agimat, 2014
  • 3rd love, Poetry for Children (English) daily Those Colorful Parts, 2014
  • 1st award, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Si Padre Olan kag ang Dios,[24] 2013
  • Hall of Fame Award,[25] 2012
  • 1st prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Punctuation,[26] 2012
  • 2nd prize, Rhyme for Children (Filipino) for Sa Mundo ng mga Kulisap, 2012
  • 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) collect Donato Bugtot,[27] 2011
  • 2nd prize, Unshortened Play (English) for If glory Shoe Fits: Or, The Quintuplet Men Imelda Marcos Meets beget Heaven,[28] 2011
  • 2nd prize, Poetry be directed at Children (English) for The Athletic of Happiness & Other Poesy, 2011
  • 3rd place, One-Act Play (English) for The Wide Ionian Mass, 2010
  • 1st prize, Full-length Play (English) for The Passion of Jovita Fuentes,[29] 2008
  • 1st prize, Short Parcel (Hiligaynon) for Candido,[30] 2007
  • 2nd passion, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Confederacy Kapid,[31] 2006
  • 3rd prize, Short Composition (Hiligaynon) for Ang Pangayaw,[32] 2000
  • 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) sue Lirio,[9] 1998

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  28. ^Nery, Peter Solis (August 3, 2012). If the Shoe Fits: Or, The Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN .
  29. ^Nery, Dick Solis (July 31, 2015).

    The Passion of Jovita Fuentes. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN .

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