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Ian Rosales Casocot (born 1975) is a creative writer and journalist from Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. He is known for his prizewinning short stories ''Old Movies'', ''The Hero of the Snore Tango'', ''Rosario and the Stories'', and ''A Strange Map of Time''. He also maintains A Critical Survey of Philippine Literature, a website on Filipino writings and literary criticism. Casocot studied at the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) and Silliman University (Dumaguete City, Philippines) where he graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication. He was a writer for fiction at National Writers'Workshops in Dumaguete, Cebu and Iligan. Casocot received Don Carlos Palanca, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and the ''PBBY-Salanga'' prizes for his fiction. He is also the first winner of the Gregorio C. Brillantes Prize for Prose in the Fully Booked and Neil Gaiman Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards in 2006. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts selected him as one of the authors for ''The 2003 UBOD New Writers Series'', and subsequently published his first short story collection ''Old Movies and Other Stories'' in 2005. ''FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures '', an anthology he had edited, received a National Book Award〔(National Book Award )〕 nomination from the Manila Critics Circle. His novel ''Sugar Land'' was longlisted in the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize. In the middle of 2010, Casocot was one of only two Filipinos selected to participate in the 43rd International Writing Program (IWP) of the University of Iowa from August to November of the said year.〔Emaleen Franz C. Maputi (July 14, 2010). ''Casocot gets a spot in Int'l Writing Program''. The Weekly Sillimanian. Vol. LXXXIII, No. 3., p.1〕 His short stories and essays have been published in ''The Sunday Times'', ''Sands and Coral'', ''Dapitan'', ''Tomas'', Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippine Daily Inquirer, SunStar Bacolod, and Dumaguete MetroPost. Casocot teaches English and Literature at Silliman University in Dumaguete City. He is also a correspondent for the ''Philippine Daily Inquirer''. He also writes two weekly columns, ''The Spy in the Sandwich'' for Visayan Daily Star's StarLife Magazine and ''Tempest in a Coffee Mug'' for Dumaguete MetroPost. ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Casocot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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