Paolo Manalo is a
Filipino poet who teaches at the College of Arts and Letters,
University of the Philippines
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. For a time he served as the literary editor of the
Philippines Free Press
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.
''Jolography'', his first book of poems,
University of the Philippines Press
2003 received the 1st prize in poetry from the 2002 Palanca Awards and the 2004 U.P. Gawad Chancellor Para sa Natatanging Likha ng Sining (Outstanding Literary Work).
He earned his Ph.D. creative writing
Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on craft and technique, such as narrative structure, character ...
at the University of St Andrews
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.
References
External links
Author profile on panitikan.com.ph
21st-century Filipino poets
Filipino journalists
University of the Philippines alumni
Living people
Filipino male poets
21st-century Filipino male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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