N. V. M. Gonzalez was born on September 08, 1915 and a Filipino writer. He was born in Romblon. Gozalez is also a musician. He played violin and he even create a guitar by hand. NV.M. attended college at National University but unable to finish his undergraduate degree. Gonzalez made his break in the Philippine writing community as a member of the Board of Advisers of Likhaan: The University of the Philippines Writing Center. He also attended creative writing classes at Stanford University. He returned to the Philippines and taught at University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, and Philippine Women's University. He is a teacher,author, journalist, and essayist. His notable awards are Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Palanca Memorial Award for Litearature,Philippine National Artist, and City of Manila Medal of Honor.
On April 14, 1987, he is conferred by the University of the Philippines the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Gonzalez was declared National Artist of the Philippines in 1997. He passed away on November 28, 1999, at the age of 84.
At 8, he added three books: The Bread of Salt and Other Stories, Seven Hills Away and Other Stories, and Work On the Mountain.
His works have been published in Filipino, English, Indonesian, German, Chinese, and Russian.
Source: http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/you-cant-go-home-again-if-you-never-left
NOVELS
The Winds of April
A Season of Grace
The Bamboo Dancers
The Land And The Rain
The Happiest Boy in The World
ESSAYS
A Novel of Justice
Work on the Mountain
SHORT FICTION
"The Tomato Game".1993
A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press
The Bread of Salt and Other Stories
Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989
Selected Stories.
Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963
Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classic, 1992
Seven Hills Away.
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