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Author Description Jim Pascual Agustin was born in the Philippines. <br />Winner of the 2022 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize winner for his manuscript WAKING UP TO THE PATTERN LEFT BY A SNAIL OVERNIGHT, published in March/April 2023.<br />His previous book is BLOODRED DRAGONFLIES (Deep South). BLUR OF A DOG is forthcoming from his Philippine publisher, San Anselmo Press, which released his two other collections - HOW TO MAKE A SALAGUBANG HELICOPTER & other poems and CROCODILES IN BELFAST & other poems.<br />His early years were spent in a communal house where he struggled to remember all the names of his numerous cousins. His family was forced out of their land to make way for the construction of a highway named after the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.<br />He owes his love for literature to the late Irish-American priest, Fr. James O'Brien, SJ. Jim was a Fellow of the University of the Philippines Writers Workshop and the Iligan University Writers Workshop. In October 1994, he moved to Cape Town, South Africa.<br />He has a number of poetry books published by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. In 2011, Baha-bahagdang Karupukan (Filipino collection) and Alien to Any Skin (English collection) were simultaneously released.<br />Blogs for these two books are: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.karupukan.wordpress.com">www.karupukan.wordpress.com</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.alientoanyskin.wordpress.com">www.alientoanyskin.wordpress.com</a><br />In 2013, Kalmot ng Pusa sa Tagiliran and Sound Before Water were published. 2015 saw the release A Thousand Eyes. His first collection of short stories in Filipino, Sanga sa Basang Lupa, was released in 2016 and has been selected by renowned Filipino novelist Edgar Calabia Samar among the notable books of recent memory.<br />WINGS OF SMOKE, his eighth poetry book, was released in 2017 by UK publisher The Onslaught Press.<br /><br />In his adopted country of South Africa he has won second prize in the 2013 New Coin DALRO Poetry Prize and third prize at the 2014 and 2015 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award. <br />Please contact the author through his blog, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.matangmanok.wordpress.com">www.matangmanok.wordpress.com</a> if you are interested in any of his work.

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