Ian Casocot
Encyclopedia
Ian Rosales Casocot is a creative writer and journalist from Dumaguete City
, Negros Oriental
, Philippines
. He is known for his prizewinning short stories Old Movies, The Hero of the Snore Tango, Rosario and the Stories, and A Strange Map of Time. He also maintains A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature, a website on Filipino writings and literary criticism.
Casocot studied at the International Christian University
(Tokyo
, Japan
) and Silliman University
(Dumaguete City
, Philippines
) where he graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication. He was a writer for fiction
at National Writers’Workshops in Dumaguete, Cebu and Iligan.
Casocot received Don Carlos Palanca
, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and the PBBY-Salanga prizes for his fiction
. He is also the first winner of the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose in the Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards in 2006. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts selected him as one of the authors for The 2003 UBOD New Writers Series, and subsequently published his first short story collection Old Movies and Other Stories in 2005. FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures , an anthology he had edited, received a National Book Award
nomination from the Manila Critics Circle. His novel Sugar Land was longlisted in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. In the middle of 2010, Casocot was one of only two Filipinos
selected to participate in the 43rd International Writing Program
(IWP) of the University of Iowa
from August to November of the said year.
His short stories and essays have been published in The Sunday Times, Sands and Coral, Dapitan, Tomas, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer, SunStar Bacolod, and Dumaguete MetroPost.
Casocot teaches English
and Literature
at Silliman University
in Dumaguete City. He is also a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer
. He also writes two weekly columns, The Spy in the Sandwich for Visayan Daily Star's StarLife Magazine and Tempest in a Coffee Mug for Dumaguete MetroPost.
Dumaguete City
The City of Dumaguete is a city in the Philippine province of Negros Oriental. It is the capital, principal seaport, and largest city of the province. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 133,470 people. A person from Dumaguete is called a "Dumagueteño"...
, Negros Oriental
Negros Oriental
Negros Oriental is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. It occupies the south-eastern half of the island of Negros, with Negros Occidental comprising the north-western half. It also includes Apo Island — a popular dive site for both local and foreign tourists...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. He is known for his prizewinning short stories Old Movies, The Hero of the Snore Tango, Rosario and the Stories, and A Strange Map of Time. He also maintains A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature, a website on Filipino writings and literary criticism.
Casocot studied at the International Christian University
International Christian University
There are several rankings related to ICU, shown below.-Alumni rankings:According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings and the PRESIDENT's article on 2006/10/16, graduates from ICU have the 24th best employment rate in 400 major companies, and their average graduate salary is the 4th best in...
(Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
) and Silliman University
Silliman University
Silliman University is a private research university located in Dumaguete, Philippines. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it was the first American private school to be founded in the country. The University is named after Dr...
(Dumaguete City
Dumaguete City
The City of Dumaguete is a city in the Philippine province of Negros Oriental. It is the capital, principal seaport, and largest city of the province. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 133,470 people. A person from Dumaguete is called a "Dumagueteño"...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
) where he graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication. He was a writer for fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
at National Writers’Workshops in Dumaguete, Cebu and Iligan.
Casocot received Don Carlos Palanca
Palanca Awards
The Palanca Awards or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is the Philippines' most prestigious and most enduring literary awards and is dubbed as the "Pulitzer Prize" of the Philippines...
, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and the PBBY-Salanga prizes for his fiction
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
. He is also the first winner of the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose in the Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards in 2006. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts selected him as one of the authors for The 2003 UBOD New Writers Series, and subsequently published his first short story collection Old Movies and Other Stories in 2005. FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures , an anthology he had edited, received a National Book Award
Philippine National Book Awards
The Philippine National Book Awards, or simply the National Book Awards, is a Philippine literary award sponsored by the NBDB and the MCC . It is the national book award of the Philippines...
nomination from the Manila Critics Circle. His novel Sugar Land was longlisted in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. In the middle of 2010, Casocot was one of only two Filipinos
Filipinos
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selected to participate in the 43rd International Writing Program
International Writing Program
The International Writing Program is a writing residency for international artists in Iowa City, Iowa. Since its inception in 1967, the IWP has hosted over 1,100 emerging and established poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists, and journalists from more than 120 countries...
(IWP) of the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
from August to November of the said year.
His short stories and essays have been published in The Sunday Times, Sands and Coral, Dapitan, Tomas, Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer, SunStar Bacolod, and Dumaguete MetroPost.
Casocot teaches English
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
and Literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
at Silliman University
Silliman University
Silliman University is a private research university located in Dumaguete, Philippines. Established in 1901 as Silliman Institute by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, it was the first American private school to be founded in the country. The University is named after Dr...
in Dumaguete City. He is also a correspondent for the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
. He also writes two weekly columns, The Spy in the Sandwich for Visayan Daily Star's StarLife Magazine and Tempest in a Coffee Mug for Dumaguete MetroPost.