Marne Kilates

Poet

Marne Kilates, an award-winning poet and translator, has published six books of poetry and numerous translations of the works of leading authors writing in Filipino. His recent book Time’s Enchantment & Other Reflections (Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2014) won that year’s National Book Award, while his latest collection is Lyrical Objects (UST Publishing House, 2015) was finalist for the same award in 2016. Kilates has won the Palanca Awards, National Book Awards, and the SEA WRITE Award of Thailand. He was named the first Poet of the Year in the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards of Philippines Graphic Magazine for 2013. In 2012 he was the holder of the Henry Lee Irwin Professorial Chair for Creative Writing at the Ateneo de Manila University.

His works may be sampled in his website, “Marnescripts” at http://marnek2.wixsite.com/marnescripts.