Eric Gamalinda

Who is Eric Gamalinda?

Eric Gamalinda is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and experimental filmmaker. His work has been described as “luminous” and “wonderful and vibrant”. “Gamalinda is a marvelous poet,” wrote D. Nurkse, poet laureate of Brooklyn. “His wistful, fierce, enthralled voice seems to speak the true language, the sotto voce language we can’t hear in our world of binary and mutually destructive opposites.”

Recent awards and grants for his work include the Man Asian Prize shortlist [2009], the Cultural Center of the Philippines Independent Film and Video Awards [2004], the Asian American Literary Award and the Alice James Books New York/New England Selection for Zero Gravity [poems, 2000], the New York Foundation for the Arts [fiction, 1998], the Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for My Sad Republic [novel, 1998], and the Philippine National Book Award for Planet Waves [novel, 1990]. He has also won the Philippines’ top literary prize, the Palanca Memorial Awards, several times for poetry, fiction, non-fiction and playwriting. In 2010, his three-act play, Resurrection, was staged off-Broadway at the Clurman Theater on 42nd Street by Diverse City Inc. His latest novel, The Descartes Highlands will be published by Akashic Books in 2014.