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Filipino writer and filmmaker

Peter Solis Nery
Born	() January 6, (age&#;55) Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines
Occupation	Poet, writer, author, actor, filmmaker
Language	English, Filipino, Hiligaynon
Nationality	Filipino
Alma&#;mater	University of the Philippines Visayas SVD Christ the King Mission Seminary West Negros College

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, author, and filmmaker.

Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame Awardee,^[1] the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission for Culture and the Arts) winner.^[2] In , he became the first Filipino author to be invited to the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates.^[3] Writing in English, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, he has authored at least 35 books, and has written screenplays.

He wrote and edited newspapers in Iloilo City before becoming a nurse in the United States.

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As an actor, Nery briefly appeared in Tikoy Aguiluz's film on cybersex, , of which he was also the assistant director.^[4] He has also written, produced, and directed a full-length feature film in Hiligaynon, Gugma sa Panahon sang Bakunawa (Love in the Time of the Bakunawa), which was a finalist at the 1st Sineng Pambansa National Film Competition of the Film Development Council of the Philippines.

Nery resides in Reisterstown, Maryland, and continues to write in at least three languages.

He was awarded the UP Distinguished Alumnus Award in Championing Hiligaynon Literature and Regional Culture in ^[5]

Early life and education

Peter Solis Nery was born on January 6, , and raised in the coastal town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines.

He is the eldest among five siblings and his parents were both public school teachers. Peter attended primary school at the Dumangas Central Elementary School, completed his secondary education at the Dumangas Polytechnic College (now Iloilo State College of Fisheries), where he was consistently a first honor student from grade school to high school.

He finished his bachelor of science degree in Biology from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, where he was named Most Outstanding Student () and Most Outstanding Graduate of . He also received the President’s Award of Merit as Outstanding Student in his graduation year.^[6][7]

While at school, Peter honed his talent for writing.

Under his editorship, he led the UPV College of Arts and Sciences' official publication, Pagbutlak (Sunrise) to become the region’s best at the College Press Awards.^[6] Peter also had attended the SVD Christ the King Mission Seminary in Quezon City where he took an Associate in Philosophy degree in In , he earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the West Negros College (now West Negros University) in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.^[8]

Writing career

Early works

After the EDSA Revolution of , Peter found himself in a new wave of Philippine literature.

There was a resurgence of interest in nationalistic writing. At U.P., Peter was lucky to meet Leoncio Deriada ( Palanca Hall of Fame awardee) who encouraged him to write in Hiligaynon. Peter won his first national award in writing for his poetry in Hiligaynon, Mga Ambahanon kag Pangamuyo sang Bata nga Nalimtan sa Wayang (Songs and Prayers of a Child Forgotten in the Fields)in For his performance poetry Si Eva, si Delilah, si Ruth, kag ang Alput (Eva, Delilah, Ruth, and the Prostitute) at the Premio Operiano Italia, he was named Hari sang Binalaybay (King of Hiligaynon Poetry) in , a title he held until During his student activism days at the university, he wrote his first book, I Flew a Kite for Pepe, in He admits, “I cringe now at my boldness to call it poetry then but I always thought that the book had a big heart.

I still cry when I read it.” It was followed by his earth song and hymn to the planet, First Few Notes of a Green Symphony.

Autobiography of peter solis nerys Naging patnugot ako ng mga pahayagang estudyante sa elementarya, haiskul, at maging sa kolehiyo. Categories : births Living people 20th-century Filipino poets 20th-century short story writers 21st-century Filipino poets 21st-century short story writers English-language writers from the Philippines Filipino children's writers Filipino male dramatists and playwrights Filipino male film actors Filipino male poets Filipino male short story writers Filipino short story writers Filipino Roman Catholics Filipino writers of bilingual works Hiligaynon people LGBTQ Roman Catholics Palanca Award recipients Roman Catholic writers Tagalog-language writers University of the Philippines Visayas alumni Writers from Iloilo Writers from Los Angeles Visayan people 20th-century Filipino male writers 21st-century male writers People from Iloilo. And this is the only form of torture he wants to die of over and over again. Aside from publishing the memoir My Life as a Hermit, and the collection of lyric poems Fireflies for a Yuppie both for Giraffe Books , Peter won his first Palanca gold medal for his magical realist Hiligaynon short story Lirio, about a deaf-mute who is a victim of marital rape.

Transition

While working as a religious missionary in Macau, Peter became more introspective and started his memoirs. The Essential Thoughts of a Purple Cat was published by Giraffe Books in ; Moon River, Butterflies and Me in ; and My Life as a Hermit again by Giraffe in In , he won the NCCA Western Visayas Poetry Competition for his collection Umanhon nga Gugma (Love of the Rural Folks).

Some of the poems were translated, reworked, and included in his provocative collection, Rated R (Giraffe Books, ).

Peter published four titles in the playful poetry collection Shy Evocations of Childhood and Other Poems that Came under Hypnosis, and Rated R for Giraffe; Shorts, a collection of haiku-like poems, and the memoir Moon River, Butterflies and Me for New Day.

He won his first Palanca gold medal for his magical realist Hiligaynon Short Story Lirio about a deaf-mute who is a victim of marital rape.^[9] Furthermore, his first screenplay, Buyong, about a Katipunero revolutionary from Aklan won third prize in the screenplay category of the Centennial Literary Prize. Later that year, his second screenplay, Tayo na sa Buwan (Let’s Go to the Moon), won an honorable mention at the Film Development Foundation of the Philippines.

Eventually, he started his own publishing company and produced A Loneliness Greater than Love (), an exploration of homoerotic themes; and Fantasia (), a collection of his Palanca-winning fiction. In , he published Rain as Gentle as Tears, a sequel to his Shorts collection, and The Prince of Ngoyngoy (The Prince of Sob), a collection of lyric poems in Hiligaynon that established Peter as the Ilonggo epitome of emotional poetry.

In , he launched Pierre: The Magazine of Peter Solis Nery. It delivered three monthly issues.

When opportunity came in , he went to the United States to work as a nurse. For days in , Peter endeavored to write erotic sonnets in Hiligaynon. He called it Kakunyag (Thrill). It was launched during the National Arts Month in Iloilo, and was serialized in a newspaper.^[10] He won a Palanca in for his Hiligaynon psycho-thriller short story, Ang Kapid (The Twins).^[2] The win provided him another encouragement to persevere in writing in the Hiligaynon.

In , Peter won his second Palanca gold for his historical Hiligaynon Short Story Candido, about the anting-anting (amulet) of the revolutionary Candido Iban.^[2] The following year, he won his third Palanca gold for his play in English, The Passion of Jovita Fuentes, about the tragic love of the first Filipino international opera diva and first female National Artist in Music.^[2] Peter also completed translation of his Erotic Sonnets in the Hiligaynon into English in

Nursing career

Nery enrolled in Nursing as he continued to write for the newspaper.

He graduated his Bachelor of Science in Nursing in October ^[11] He went to the United States in February and became a Registered Nurse in California in May of the same year^[12] and started working as an orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles in In October , he was given various awards for his commitment to his nursing profession including the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses.

Peter Solis Nery Foundation

The Peter Solis Nery Foundation, or The Peter Solis Nery Foundation for Hiligaynon Literature and the Arts, Inc. was established in September by Nery, right after his induction into the Palanca Awards Hall of Fame.^[13][14] The foundation, which aims to promote, preserve, and propagate Hiligaynon literature, and Filipino art and culture, through research, publications, productions, education, and cultural dissemination, was incorporated by the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission on November 5, ^[15] Following immediately, the foundation created the Peter’s Prize for Excellence in Hiligaynon Writing that first gave out awards in September ^[16] In May , the foundation sponsored a month-long online Hiligaynon poetry workshop called Poem-a-thon with Peter Solis Nery.^[17] In August , the foundation published five anthology books of new Hiligaynon writings culled from the Peter’s Prize competitions and the Poem-a-thon workshop.^[18]

Personal life

Nery is gay, and was married to an American man from until the latter's death when Nery was ^[7][19]

Nery is a Roman Catholic despite the church’s stand on homosexuality.^[7]

Published works

• I Flew a Kite for Maria (New Day Publishers.

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• First Few Notes of a Green Symphony (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• The Essential Thoughts of a Purple Cat (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Rated R (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Shorts (New Day Publishers.

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• Moon River, Butterflies, and Me (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Shy Evocations of Childhood (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• My Life as a Hermit (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Fireflies for a Yuppie (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• A Loneliness Greater than Love (DreamWings Publishing.

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• Fantasia (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• Rain as Gentle as Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• The Prince of Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: ) ISBN&#;
• The Passion of Jovita Fuentes (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: ) ISBN&#;
• Erotic Sonnets from the Hiligaynon (CreateSpace.

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• Love in the Time of the Bakunawa (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• If the Shoe Fits: Or, The Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Cory, Full of Grace (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Kakunyag: Erotic Sonnets in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace.

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• Stories in a Mellifluous Language (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Prize Very, Very Short Stories in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Prize Love Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Peter’s Prize Children’s Stories and Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace.

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• Peter’s Prize The Saddest Love Stories Ever Told in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• The Poem-a-thon Anthology: Mga Binalaybay sang Mayo (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• The Passion of Jovita Fuentes: International edition (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Welcome to Grindr (CreateSpace.

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• Creative Writing: DIWA Senior High School Series (Diwa Learning Systems, Inc. Makati City: ) ISBN&#;
• At My Father's Wake: 10 Elegies in 3 Languages (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;X
• After: Prose Poems (KDP.
  Autobiography of peter solis nerys youtube Pero dahil patuloy akong nagsusulat, kontemporaneo na rin ang turing ko sa mga bagong manunulat sa Hiligaynon katulad ni Jesus Insilada, at ang mga Hiligaynon bloggers tulad nina Edgar Siscar at Gil Camporazo. I have to trust my actors, my directors of photography. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Right now, Peter enjoys the scenery of Los Angeles, as a nurse and a writer serving as his bread and butter.

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• Funny, Sad, and Dangerous (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• Nothing’s Lost: Stories by Peter Solis Nery (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• The (Almost) Fabulous: a self-portrait in bits and pieces (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;
• 7: Palanca Award-winning Stories in Glorious Hiligaynon (KDP.

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• We Begin in Awe: Close Encounters with the PSN Corpus (KDP. U.S.A.: ) ISBN&#;

Palanca Awards won

• 1st prize, Short Story (Filipino) for Ang Tariktik,^[20]
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Macatol kag ang “Queen of Relief”,^[21]
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Picnic, Symphony & Other Concepts a 4th Grader Needs to Know,
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Milagro sa Ermita,^[22]
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (English) for Tic-Tac-Toe,^[23]
• 1st prize, Poetry for Children (English) for The Rainbow Collection,
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (Filipino) for Gladiolas,
• 3rd prize, Full-length Play (Filipino) for Agimat,
• 3rd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Those Colorful Parts,
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Si Padre Olan kag ang Dios,^[24]
• Hall of Fame Award,^[25]
• 1st prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Punctuation,^[26]
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (Filipino) for Sa Mundo ng mga Kulisap,
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Donato Bugtot,^[27]
• 2nd prize, Full-length Play (English) for If the Shoe Fits: Or, The Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven,^[28]
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for The Shape of Happiness & Other Poems,
• 3rd place, One-Act Play (English) for The Wide Ionian Sea,
• 1st prize, Full-length Play (English) for The Passion of Jovita Fuentes,^[29]
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Candido,^[30]
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Kapid,^[31]
• 3rd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Pangayaw,^[32]
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Lirio,^[9]

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