Exile is a Bittersweet Muse – Living, teaching and Writing in Exile
Bienvenido Santos
Thursday, 05 Apr 1984 at 12:00 am – Oak Room, Memorial Union
Mr. Santos chose exile when marital law was declared in his homeland in 1972, and became Writer-in-Residence at Wichita State University. Later he became the first Filipino writer to win a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. From the University Lectures Program archive.
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