TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: A LA CARTE FOOD & FICTION

Sunday, February 24, 2008

A LA CARTE FOOD & FICTION - GOURMAND AWARD

I just received the following notice from the people who run the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The anthology A La Carte already won the Gourmand Award in the Philippines, and is being considered for their International Award - in the top 3, according to the Gourmand contact. Top mainstream publishers vie for the Gourmand Awards, so this is good news for me, my co-editor, Marily Orosa, and publisher (Anvil, Karina Bolasco)!

SHORTLIST FOR THE BEST IN THE WORLD

CONGRATULATIONS

You are a Nominee on the shortlist for

Best in the World in the Gourmand Awards

With your book:
A La Carte: Food and Fiction

You compete in the category: 27 – Best Food Literature Book

There were books from 21 countries in that category.

The complete list will be published in the Gourmand Yearbook 2008 in April.

You are now in the top three.

The Best in the World will be announced on April 13 in London and called to the stage at Olympia Theatre. (London, UK)

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.