Author/Editor: Merlinda Bobis

Biography
Merlinda Bobis

Merlinda Carullo Bobis is a contemporary Philippine Australian writer and academic. She was born in Legazpi City in the Philippines province of Albay, and attended Bicol University High School then completed her BA at Aquinas University in Legazpi City. She holds post-graduate degrees from the University of St. Thomas and University of Wollongong, and now lives in Australia. She has written in various genres in Filipino and English, and her work integrates elements of the traditional culture of the Philippines with modern immigrant experiences.

Also a dancer and visual artist, Bobis currently teaches at Wollongong University. Her play Rita's Lullaby was the winner of the 1998 Awgie for Best Radio Play and the international Prix Italia; and in 1995, the Ian Reed Radio Drama Prize. In 2000 White Turtle won the Steele Rudd Award for the Best Collection of Australian Short Stories and the 2000 Philippine National Book Award.

White Turtle has been published in USA under the title, The Kissing. Her poetry collections are Rituals: Selected poems, 1985-1990 (1990) and Summer Was a Fast Train without Terminals (1998). Currently, she lectures in creative writing at the University of Wollongong.

 

Website: http://www.merlindabobis.com.au/

Events
17 Jan 2012 Fish-Hair Woman
Cover Fish-Hair Woman, author Merlinda Bobis
Merlinda Bobis's latest book Fish-Hair Woman is to be launched at Adelaide Writer's Week, in Melbourne at Readings Carlton and in Canberra. Details of the la... more

News
14 Jan 2010 Performance pieces by Merlinda Bobis

Watch two dramatic works from Filipina-Australian poet and performer Merlinda Bobis on her website. 'River, River' is adapted from her short story 'Fish-Hai... more


Awards
Banana Heart Summer, 2006 Gintong Aklat Award (Golden Book Award) Philippines
2000 Winner, National Book Award (fiction), Manila Critics Circle, Philippines
Book Awards
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals: 1999 Shortlist, Age Book of the Year Award
White Turtle: 2000 Co-winner, Steele Rudd Award
White Turtle: 2000 Winner, National Book Award (fiction), Manila Critics Circle

Books published by, or available from, Spinifex
Fish–Hair Woman
Summer Was A Fast Train Without Terminals
White Turtle

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