Luciano Perez-Rivera Santiago (21 June 1942 – 1 February 2019) was a Filipino writer, historian, and psychiatrist best known for his award-winning books on Philippine history and the arts. He was a psychiatrist by profession.

Education

Dr. Santiago was an alumnus of the

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. After graduating, he trained in both adult and child psychiatry at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in

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and practiced there for a while before returning to the Philippines to be a physician at the Department of Psychiatry of

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Hospital in

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Awards

Santiago has received a number of prizes and awards for his work, including: * The National Book Award for Art and for History (from the Manila Critics Circle), * The Wendell Muncie Prize for Distinguished Writing in Psychiatry (from the Maryland Psychiatric Society), * The Premio Manuel Bernabé (Primer Premio) in History (from the Centro Cultural de la Embajada de Espana), * The Dr. Pedro Villaseñor Award for Genealogy, * The Catholic Author Award (from the Asian Catholic Publishers) * The Catholic Press Award (from the

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), and * a Research Grant Award from the Toyota International Foundation.

References

1942 births 2019 deaths Filipino psychiatrists 20th-century Filipino historians Writers from Metro Manila University of the Philippines Manila alumni {{Philippines-writer-stub