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Wilfrido D. Nolledo

Born

in Philippines

January 19, 1933

Died

March 08, 2004

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Filipino-American fictionist, playwright, essayist, and editor was once referred to by Nick Joaquin, Philippine National Artist, as a "young magus" who turned the Philippine war experience into a poem, referring to "But For the Lovers," the novel that brought Nolledo to the attention of publisher, E.B. Hutton.

In 1965, he was a Fulbright scholar at Iowa Writers Workshop; from then on, he was at the University of Iowa on various scholarship grants and served as the literary editor of the Iowa Review.

Nolledo led an enriching literary career, producing works that won prizes and awards. Among them were: the National Cultural Award for Drama from the City of Manila, National Award for Drama from the Writers’ Union of the Philippines, and the Roma ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 205 ratings · 40 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	But for the Lovers by Wilfrido D. Nolledo, Robert Coover (Foreword) 3.92 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1970 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philippine PEN Anthology of Short Stories 1962 by Francisco Arcellana (Editor), Gregorio C. Brillantes (Contributor), Gilda Cordero-Fernando (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1962	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cadena de Amor and other stories 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It flew away, whatever it was, and now he squinted up and remembered that it was the first time in a long spell he had seen the sky, and he thought: It is longer, lonelier and lovelier than any of my prayers.”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

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“The perspiration of kings is just froth of the decanter. But the pawis of peasants dries up, becomes lead that weighs them down the ages. The master wears a necktie; the slave, a grindstone. Between them no relationship is possible except that which exists between mill and grist. And what is private property without public toil? Yet the world perpetuates only the pyramids, only their pharaohs. Nobody remembers or even likes to admit that both came into existence only through brawn and blood that issued from millions upon millions of nameless serfs. You weep over sunken armadas but not over their galleon slaves. You weep over fallen crowns, not for those beheaded. This must stop! We shall stop you! Labor has a face, labor has a name! You don’t romanticize it. . . you feed its belly . . . heal its sores and sons. All written history glorifies the power of men, not the sweat of man. . . . All this feudal nonsense about lilac-strewn palaces and Cleopatra’s bath! Well, the new chronicle will smell as the tao smells. It shall be carpenter over architect, farmer over agrarianist, citizen over president....”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

tags: class-struggle, exploitation, feudalism, history, inequality, labor, oppression, peasants, property, slaves

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“Curious how a man often calendared his glory and grief with a woman for asterisk.”
― Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

tags: glory, grief, human-experience, life-events, love, marking-time, relationships, symbolism, woman

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