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Award-winning Pinoy writer-poet joins Sydney Writers' festival


Ricardo de Ungria, a multi-award winning Filipino writer-poet, will be leading the Philippines participation in the prestigious 2007 Sydney Writers’ Festival where international literary personalities will showcase their works. The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney, Australia reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs on Thursday that de Ungria will be joined in the festival by Jose Wendell Capili, an internationally published poet and academician, and, Noonee Doronila, a Filipino-Australian poet, for the event on June 2. Now in its tenth year, the festival is one of the most-anticipated international cultural events in Sydney. It will run from May 28 to June 3, 2007 at various venues throughout Sydney. De Ungria, a founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council in 1981, heads the Committee on Literary Arts of the Philippine National Commission on the Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and a member of the Board of Judges of the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, one of the Philippines’ foremost awards for literary excellence. De Ungria will be appearing in the following events: 1. 31 May 2007 (Thursday), 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. "Poetry from Around the World II" Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road , Walsh Bay Free admission 2. 2 June 2007 (Saturday), 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. "From the Editors: Migrant Communities and Emerging Australian Literature" Liverpool Regional Gallery Bookings required. To book, call 9824-1121 or e-mail: reception@casualpowerhouse.com He has published poetry such as Pidgin Levitations: Poetic/Chroma Texts 1981-1989 (2004), Waking Ice (2000), Body English (1996), Decimal Places (1994) and Voideville (1991), among others, and co-edited a number of literary anthologies. He has also contributed a number of works in literary anthologies that appeared in Singapore, the United States and Spain . Among the awards he received were the First Prize (Open Category) of the St. Louis Poetry Center Annual Contest in Missouri (1989) and Honorable Mentions in the Academy of American Poets Prize (Washington University , Missouri ) and the State Street Poetry Contest ( Florida State University ) in 1988. He also received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1994, 1996 and 2000 and the National Book Award for Design in 2005 from the Manila Critics Circle. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of the Philippines – Mindanao and chairs the Mindanao Science and Technology Park Consortium. For more information on the Festival events, please refer to the SWF website at www.swf.org.au or call 9252-7729.

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