Linda Ty Casper
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| Born | 1931 Malabon, Rizal, Philippine Islands  |
| Occupation | Filipino writer |
Linda Ty Casper (Malabon, 1931) is a Filipino writer.
Life
Born as Belinda Ty in Malabon, Philippines in 1931. She spent the World War II years with her grandmother while her father worked in the Philippine National Railways, and her mother in the Bureau of Public Schools. Her grandmother told her innumerable of stories about the Filipino’s struggle for independence, that later became the topics of her novels. Linda Ty Casper graduated valedictorian in the University of the Philippines, and later earned her Master's degree in Harvard University for International Law. In 1956, she married Leonard Casper, a professor emeritus of Boston College who is also a critic of Philippine Literature. They have two daughters and reside in Massachusetts.
Her works include the historical novel DreamEden and the political novels Awaiting Trespass, Wings of Stone, A Small Party in a Garden, and Fortress in the Plaza. She has also published three collections of short stories which present a cross-section of Filipino society.[1]
In 1992, Tides and Near Occasions of Love won the Philippine PEN short story prize; another at the UNESCO International Writers' Day, London; and the SEAWrite Award in Bangkok "Triptych for a Ruined Altar" was in the Roll of Honor of The Best American Short Stories, 1977.[2]
Her novel Awaiting Trespass which is about the politically sensitive theme of torture by the Marcos regime was published by Readers International of London. This work gained her major critical attention in the United States for the first time, and in Britain the novel was chosen as one of the five best works of fiction by a woman writer published in 1985-86.[citation needed].
Published works
- The Transparent Sun (short stories), Peso Books, 1963
- The Peninsulares (historical novel), Bookmark 1964
- The Secret Runner (short stories), Florentino/National Book, 1974
- The Three-Cornered Sun (historical novel), New Day, 1974
- Dread Empire (novella), Hong Kong, Heinemann, 1980
- Hazards of Distance (novella), New Day, 1981
- Fortress in the Plaza (novella), New Day, 1985
- Awaiting Trespass (novella), London, Readers International, 1985
- Wings of Stone (novella), London, Readers International, 1986
- Ten Thousand Seeds (historical novel), Ateneo, 1987
- A Small Party in a Garden (novella), New Day, 1988
- Common Continent (short stories), Ateneo, 1991
- Kulasyon: Uninterrupted Vigils (collected first chapters), Giraffe, 1995
- DreamEden (historical novel) Ateneo 1996 and University of Washington Press 1997
Awards
- Djerassi, 1984
- Filipino-American Women Network Award for Literature, 1985
- Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 1988
- Wheatland, 1990
- UNESCO/P.E.N. Short Story, 1993
- SEA Write Award, Bangkok, 1993
- Bellagio, 1994
References
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- 1931 births
- Living people
- People from Malabon
- English-language writers from the Philippines
- Filipino writers
- American writers of Filipino descent
- Filipino women writers
- American women writers
- Filipino emigrants to the United States
- University of the Philippines alumni
- Harvard Law School alumni
