N. V. M. Gonzalez - Awards and Prizes

Awards and Prizes

• Regents Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, 1998-1999
• Philippines Centennial Award for Literature, 1998
• National Artist Award for Literature, 1997
• Oriental Mindoro Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution "extending due recognition to Nestor V. M. González... the commendation he well deserves..." 1996
• City of Manila Diwa ng Lahi award "for his service and contribution to Philippine national Literature," 1996
• City of Los Angeles resolution declaring October 11, 1996 "N.V.M. González Day, 1996
• The Asian Catholic Publishers Award, 1993
• The Filipino Community of California Proclamation "honoring N.V.M. González for seventy-eight years of achievements," 1993
• Ninoy Aquino Movement for Social and Economic Reconstruction through Volunteer Service award, 1991
• City and County of San Francisco proclamation of March 7, 1990 "Professor N.V.M. González Day in San Francisco," 1990
• Cultural Center of the Philippines award, Gawad Para sa Sining, 1990
• Writers Union of the Philippines award, Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtás, 1989
• University of the Philippines International Writer-in-Residence, 1988
• Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) from the University of the Philippines, 1987
• Djerassi Foundation Artist-in-Residence, 1986
• Philippine Foreign Service Certificate of Appreciation for Work in the International Academic and Literary Community, at San Francisco, 1983
• Emeritus Professor of English, California State University, 1982
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), First Prize for 'The Tomato Game,' 1971
• City of Manila Medal of Honor, 1971.
• Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, 1969.
• Visiting Associate Professorship in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968.
• British Council award for Travel to England, 1965.
• Intemaciones Award for Travel in the Federal German Republic, 1965.
• Philippines Free Press First Prize Award winner for Serenade (short story), 1964.
• Rockefeller Foundation Writing Grant and Travel in Europe, 1964
• Jose Rizal Pro-Patria Award for The Bamboo Dancers, 1961
• Republic Cultural Heritage Award for The Bamboo Dancers, 1960
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), Third Prize winner for On the Ferry, 1959
• Philippine Free Press Third Prize winner for On the Ferry, 1959
• Republic Award of Merit for "the advancement of Filipino culture in the field of English Literature," 1954.
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), Second Prize winner for Lupo and the River, 1953
• Rockefeller Foundation Study and Travel fellowship to India and the Far East, 1952
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award (Short Story), Second Prize winner for Children of the Ash-covered Loam, 1952
• Rockefeller Foundation Writing Fellowship to Stanford University, Kenyon College School of English, and Columbia University, 1949-1950
• Liwayway Short Story Contest, Third Prize winner for Lunsod, Nayon at Dagat-dagatan, 1943
• First Commonwealth Literary Contest honorable mention for The Winds of April, 1940