Gémino Abad

His family moved to Manila when his father, Antonio Abad, was offered professorships at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines. He earned his A.B. English from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1964 "magna cum laude". His MA with honors and Ph.D. in English literature degrees were obtained from the University of Chicago in 1966 and 1970, respectively. He is a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi.{{Cite web |last=Abad |first=Gemino “Jimmy” H. |date=2013-06-17 |title=UP, my heartland |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/428087/up-my-heartland |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=INQUIRER.net |language=en}}

He is married to Mercedes Rivera-Abad.{{Cite web|url=https://ncca.gov.ph/2015/09/22/gemino-h-abad-pays-homage-to-language-and-literature-and-the-power-of-imagination/|title=Revel and Revelation: Gémino H. Abad pays homage to language and literature and the power of imagination|website=ncca.gov.ph|publisher=National Commission of Cultural and Arts}}

He served the University of the Philippines in various capacities: as Secretary of the university, Secretary of the Board of Regents, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing. For many years, he also taught English, comparative literature and creative writing at U.P. Diliman.{{Cite web |last=Llaneta |first=Celeste Ann Castillo |date=2022-06-15 |title=Five out of 8 National Artists for 2022 are from UP |url=https://up.edu.ph/five-out-of-8-national-artists-for-2022-are-from-up/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=University of the Philippines |language=en-US}}

Abad co-founded the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC) which published Caracoa, a poetry journal in English. His other works include Fugitive Emphasis (poems, 1973); In Another Light (poems and critical essays, 1976); A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry (critical theory, 1978); The Space Between (poems and critical essays, 1985); Poems and Parables (1988); Index to Filipino Poetry in English, 1905-1950 (with Edna Zapanta Manlapaz, 1988) and State of Play (letter-essays and parables, 1990). He edited landmark anthologies of Filipino poetry in English, among them Man of Earth (1989), A Native Clearing (1993) and A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, ‘60s to the ‘90s (1999).

The UP Diliman has elevated Abad to the rank of University Professor, the highest academic rank awarded by the university to an exemplary faculty member. He currently sits on the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing and teaches creative writing as Emeritus University Professor at the [http://www.upd.edu.ph/~kal/ College of Arts and Letters], U.P. Diliman.

In 2009, he became the first Filipino to receive the coveted Premio Feronia in Rome, Italy under the foreign author category.

In 2022, the Philippine government conferred on him the National Artist for Literature distinction. It is the highest recognition for artists who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine art.

• Fugitive Emphasis, 1973
• Poems and Parables, 1988
• In Ordinary Time: Poems, Parables, Poetics, 2004

• In Another Light, 1976
• The Space Between, 1985
• Father and Daughter, 1996

• A Makeshift Sun, 2001
• "Care of Light: New Poems and Found", 2010

• Orion's Belt and Other Writings, 1996

• A Formal Approach to Lyric Poetry, 1978
• Getting Real: An Introduction to the Practice of Poetry, 2004

• State of Play (essays), 1990

• Man of Earth: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 1905 to the mid-‘50s (co-edited with Ace Palermo), 2017
• A Native Clearing: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English Since the ‘50s to the Present, 1993
• A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, ‘60s to the ‘90s, 1999

• The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English, 1998

With Ace Palermo..

• Italian: Dove le parole non si spezzano, edited by Gëzim Hajdari, translated by Andrea Gazzoni, afterword by Carla Locatelli,Ace Palermo 2015 (Rome: Ensemble)

• National Artist for Literature 2022
• University Professorship, University of the Philippines
• Carlos P. Romulo Professorial Chair, University of the Philippines
• Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair in Creative Writing, Ateneo de Manila University
• Rockefeller Fellowship, University of Chicago
• Visiting professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Visiting professor, Saint Norbert College, Wisconsin
• Visiting professor, Singapore Management University
• International Writing Program Fellowship, University of Iowa
• British Council Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• U.P. Outstanding Faculty Award
• U.P. Distinguished Alumnus in Literature
• Ellen F. Fajardo Foundation Grant for Excellence in Teaching
• U.P. Gawad Chancellor Best Literary Work
• Palanca Awards for Poetry
• {{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/fp_winners.html|title=Philippines Free Press Awards|access-date=March 25, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040831080220/http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/fp_winners.html|archive-date=August 31, 2004|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} for Literature
• Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for Poetry
• National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle
• Asian Catholic Publishers Inc. Catholic Authors Award
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas from Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas (UMPIL)
• Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan in Literature from the City of Manila
• Premio Feronia, Foreign Author, 2009

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• {{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/poem01.html|title=Critical Readings in Philippine Poetry and Verse|access-date=March 2, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517192837/http://www.geocities.com/icasocot/poem01.html|archive-date=May 17, 2006|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204104739/http://www.sws.org.ph/fel-news9998.htm Philippine Social Weather Station]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105092319/http://www.english.uiowa.edu/nonfiction/overseas/ Overseas Writers Workshop, University of Iowa]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703175441/http://www.up.edu.ph/care_of_light.htm "Care of Light" by Gemino H. Abad]
• [http://www.highchair.com.ph/review_pop-tiempo.html Highchair.com]
• [http://www.upb.edu.ph/files/opa/nov02.pdf Ti Similla, U.P. Baguio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060111202858/http://www.upb.edu.ph/files/opa/nov02.pdf |date=2006-01-11 }}
• [http://www.sushidog.com/bpss/stories/fidelity.htm The Best Philippine Short Stories]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060604064118/http://manoajournal.hawaii.edu/text/issues/descriptions/philippines97.html Manoa, University of Hawaii]
• [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/refphilippines.html, Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley]

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