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Lakambini A. Sitoy is a Filipino writer. Her first novel, ''Sweet Haven'' was published in French translation by Albin Michel as "Les filles de Sweethaven" in October 2011. She received the David T.K. Wong fellowship from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom in 2003. 〔http://www.uea.ac.uk/lit/fellowships/david-wong-fellowship/formerfellows〕 She has an MA from Roskilde University, Denmark, in the fields of English Studies and Cultural Encounters, both under the Department of Culture and Identity. She has also received nine prizes in the annual Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in the Philippines (1995, 1996, 1998, 2000 (2), 2001, 2005 (2), 2007 〔http://www.palancaawards.com.ph/directory.php?id=&search=&pageno=1〕 as well as a Philippines Free Press Award (1994). As a journalist, Sitoy was a lifestyle and cultural section editor for various papers, and was a columnist and section editor for the ''Manila Times''. ==Works== Sitoy has published two collections of short stories in Manila. ''Mens Rea and Other Stories'' was published by Anvil in 1999 and received a Manila Critics' Circle National Book Award that same year. ''Jungle Planet'' was published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2006 〔Sitoy, Lakambini A. (2008) Jungle Planet and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press. 201 pages. ISBN 971-542-466-X〕 and was shortlisted for the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Award for that year. Sitoy was among 21 authors on the Man Asian Literary Prize's long list in 2008. 〔http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/lakambini-sitoy〕 The novel, ''Sweet Haven'', is her first. It was published in French by Albin Michel in October 2011.〔http://www.albin-michel.fr/Les-Filles-de-Sweethaven-EAN=9782226231536〕 Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as ''Philippines Free Press'', ''Philippine Graphic'' and ''Story Philippines''. They have appeared in various anthologies in the Philippines, such as ''Likhaan Anthology of Poetry and Fiction'' (published by the University of the Philippines Press) and ''The Best Philippine Stories'', a 2000 anthology published by Tahanan Books and edited by Isagani Cruz. Other stories have appeared in ''Manoa'', the literary journal of the University of Hawaii;〔http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/manoa/v016/16.2sitoy01.html〕''Wake'', an anthology of stories, essays and poems about Southeast Asia published in Britain to benefit victims of the 2004 tsunami; and ''Ansigter'', an anthology of Southeast Asian short stories published by Forlaget Hjulet in Copenhagen in 2008.〔http://bog.nu/titler/ansigter-vagn-plenge〕 Sitoy has received writing fellowships from the National Writers' Workshop in Dumaguete (1989) and the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop (1990). She has also received nine prizes in the annual Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards 〔 and a Philippines Free Press Award (1994). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lakambini Sitoy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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