Peter Solis Nery

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, author, and filmmaker. Writing in Hiligaynon, he is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature Hall of Fame Awardee, the Cultural Center of the Philippines Literary Grant, and the AllWestern Visayas Literary Contest winner. In 2015, he became the first Filipino author to be invited to the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. Writing in English, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, he has authored at leastbooks, and had written awardwinning screenplays. He wrote and edited newspapers in Iloilo City before becoming a nurse in the United States.

He was born on January 6, 1969 and raised in the coastal town of Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines. He is the eldest among five siblings and his parents were both public school teachers. Peter attended primary school at the Dumangas Central Elementary School, completed his secondary education at the Dumangas Polytechnic College , where he was consistently a first honor student from grade school to high school. He finished his degree in Biological Sciences from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, where he was named Most Outstanding Student and Most Outstanding Graduate of 1990. He also received the Presidents Award of Merit as Outstanding Student in his graduation year. While at school, Peter honed his talent for writing. Under his editorship, he led the U.P.V. college publication Pagbutlak to become the regions best at the 1989 College Press Awards. Peter also had attended the SVD Christ the King Mission Seminary in Quezon City where he took an Associate in Philosophy degre

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