Cesar Ruiz Aquino belongs to the brilliant generation of young writers in the 60s that included Jose Lansang, Jr., Ernesto Manalo, Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez, Erwin E. Castillo, Ninotchka Rosca, & Perfecto Tera, Jr. among others.  He presently teaches at Silliman University where he obtained his doctoral degree.

He has won the Palanca four times for his fiction and his poetry, the Free Press poetry prize and the Graphic short-story prize.  In 2004 he received the SEAWRITE award from the Prince of Thailand in Bangkok for Checkmeta, a personal anthology of poems & prose pieces both in fiction and non-fiction. His other books include Chronicles of Suspicion (short stories, Kalikasan Press, 1988), Word Without End (poems, Anvil Publishing, 1993).

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