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"I write in English because your country raped mine."
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Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol is a Filipino-born writer based in the United States. She won the 2023 Rome Prize in Literature for her proposed novel, The Treatment of Paz.
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"The essence of a country like the Philippines is that it seems to exist in translation—a series of textual mediations must be unraveled in order to reveal who or what it is."
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"We never see ourselves as others see us. Even in the mirror, we see ourselves backward."
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"The Philippines... has made art in English from seeds of violence."
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