Gina Apostol

Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol (born 1963) 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. Biography Early life and education Gina Lourdes Delgado Apostol was born in Manila the second child of her mother, Virginia. She grew up in Tacloban, Leyte, where she studied at Divine World College. Afterwards, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University.

Her second novel, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award for Fiction, as well as the biannual Gintong Aklat Award. It was republished in the United States by Soho Press in 2021.

Her American debut, Gun Dealers' Daughter, won the 2013 PEN Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Portions of her short story, "The Unintended," which was published in the Manila Noir anthology edited by Jessica Hagedorn, appear in the novel.

She has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times, and Foreign Policy.

In a 2019 interview, Apostol said that her current favorite novelist was Elena Ferrante.

The Nobel Library of the Swedish Academy owns two of her novels, Insurrecto and Gun Dealer's Daughter.

Personal life In 1998, Apostol's husband, Arne Tangherlini, died. In 2013, Apostol was diagnosed with breast cancer. She subsequently underwent a bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy.

Awards and honors Winner 1997: Philippine National Book Awards – Bibliolepsy 2010: Philippine National Book Awards – The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata 2010: Gintong Aklat Award – The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata 2013: PEN Open Book Award – Gun Dealers' Daughter 2023: Rome Prize in Literature – The Treatment of Paz

Shortlists 2014: Saroyan International Prize – Gun Dealers' Daughter 2019: Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Insurrecto