Oscar Peñaranda

Follower of the Seasons (eBook, ePUB)

A Onethology in Symphony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Followers of the Seasons is a collection of the life's work of renown Pilipino American writer Oscar Peñaranda. It is divided into five suites that cover topics of history, struggle, family, friendship and concerns for humanity. The work takes us from locations in various aspects of the writers life: the Philippines, student cultural and political activism at SF State campuses, work as an Alaskero in the canneries, to San Francisco's Manilatown.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eastwind Books of Berkeley
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781961562066
• Artikelnr.: 69508882

Autorenporträt

Oscar Peñaranda is an educator, writer, and culture-bearer for and from both shores of the Pacific and is a recipient of the prestigious Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas for lifetime achievement for his writings and endeavors; and the 2023 City of San Francisco Trailblazers Award. He has a Bachelors in Literature and a Masters in Creative Writing from SF State University. While he was working one late summer in Alaska, he was recruited to teach a class in the newly formed Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State. Oscar began his teaching career as an assistant of Joaquin Legaspi of the International Hotel and created several classes, one of which was a Survey of Philippine Art and Literature. While at SF State, he created three fourths of those classes which still exist to this day.