In 2015, a version of Riverrun was first published in the Philippines, but I had been unable to get my hands on a copy. But I have hope he is young still, and there is time. He even embarked on a political career, running for city council representative in the last elections, a run I wish had been successful. to pursue further studies, and now, apart from being an acclaimed writer and professor of literature, he is a columnist for the Philippine Star. I knew he went to England and then to the U.S. We have kept in fair touch over some 30 years, keeping up with each other’s doings in the way that friendly fellow writers are wont to do. Top Story: Unpublished Letters of Rizal to His Parents Surface

Nonetheless, he was a supportive,generous and vivid writing teacher, and I hear he remains so to this day. He was a little less intimidating than the poet, Ramon Sunico, more vocal and volatile than the poet, Rofel Brion, and not as kindly empathetic as the essayist, Doreen G. At the time, he was teaching at the English department, and already starting to publish work. His body of work is cited in The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English, The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literature, and The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.Danton Remoto was one of the four instructors at the helm of my very first Creative Writing Workshop course at the Ateneo in Manila, the summer of 1988, my senior year in college. He has published a book of short fiction, three books of poems, and five books of non-fiction, all written originally in English. He was a Fellow at the Cambridge Conference on Contemporary Literature at Downing College, Cambridge University and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College, Vermont. The Writers' Union of the Philippines gave him a National Achievement Award in Literature (Gawad Balagtas sa Panitikan) in 2015. He has received fellowships and honours from the Asian Scholarship Foundation, British Council, Fulbright Foundation, and the Don Carlos Palanca Awards for Literature, among others. He was educated at Ateneo de Manila University, University of Stirling, University of the Philippines, and Rutgers University.

Danton Remoto is a Professor of Creative Writing and Head of School, English, at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.

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