Maningning Miclat

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Maningning Miclat
Born (1972-04-15)April 15, 1972
Beijing, China
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Occupation Poet and painter

Maningning Miclat (April 15, 1972 – September 29, 2000) was a Chinese-born poet and painter of Filipino descent, who lived in the Philippines from 1986. She was known for her Chinese bamboo Zen paintings and poetry in three languages: Filipino, Mandarin and English.[1]

Biography

Excerpt from Why The Mural ?

Beside this poem
is a prayer
frozen in the acrylic paints.

Beside this poem
is a mural
- a desire for space.

Maningning Miclat poems[2]

Miclat was born in Beijing, China to Filipino parents. Her family left the Philippines in 1969 during the Marcos regime and moved to China in 1971. In 1986, she and her family returned to the Philippines after Marcos was removed from power. She has a younger sister, Banaue, who is an aspiring opera singer in New York City.[3]

In 1987, she published her first book of poems, Wo De Shi, in Mandarin, and held her first solo show of traditional Chinese painting, Maningning: An Exhibit of Chinese Brush Works.[4] She had four more solo shows in her lifetime. Miclat became a Fellow of the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop in 1990 and won an award for a Filipino play there.[1] She also became a Fellow of the Silliman National Writers Workshop.

In 1992, she won the Art Association of the Philippines Grand Prize for a painting entitled Trouble in Paradise and her second book of poetry, Voice from the Underworld, was a finalist in the country's 2001 National Book Award.[5]

Death and legacy

In 2000, at the age of 28, she jumped from the seventh floor of the Nursing Building of Far Eastern University in Manila where she was teaching at the time.[6] In 2001, the Maningning Foundation was founded in her memory to celebrate the talents of young artists both visual and written.[3][7]

Poetry and Publications

References

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  3. 3.0 3.1 Luce, Jim. "Sister's Death Leads to Support of Young Artists", The Huffington Post, March 31, 2009
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