Miguel Syjuco





Miguel Syjuco

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Manila, Philippines

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Miguel Syjuco earned a master’s degree from Columbia University and is completing his PhD at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He received the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize and the Philippines’ highest literary honor, the Palanca Award, for the unpublished manuscript of Ilustrado. Born in 1976 into a political family in Manila, Syjuco left the Philippines to become a writer. He currently lives in Montreal with his girlfriend and their two cats.


Average rating: 3.27 · 580 ratings · 151 reviews · 2 distinct works
Ilustrado
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions
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Illustrado: Roman
2.5 of 5 stars 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado

“Love and honesty don’t mix.”
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado

“Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”
Miguel Syjuco

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