N.V.M. Gonzalez

Si Néstor Vicente Madali González (8 Setyembre 1915 - 28 Nobyembre 1999) ay isang manunulat na Pilipino.

Talambuhay 
Pinanganak siya noong 8 Setyembre 1915 sa Romblon, Philippines, ngunit pinalaki sa Mansalay, isang probinsiya sa timog ng Oriental Mindoro. Anak siya ng isang guro at superbisor ng paaralan. Bilang binatilyo, tinulungan niya ang ama niya sa pamamagitan ng paghahatid ng karne sa mga karatig-bayan. Isa rin siyang musikero; tumugtog siya ng byolin at nagmay-ari ng apat na gitara. Nakuha niya ang una niyang suweldo sa pamamagitan ng pagtugtog ng byolin sa libing ng isang Tsino saRomblon. Pumasok si Gonzales sa Mindoro High School (ngayon ay Jose J. Leido Jr. Memorial National High School) mula 1927 hanggang 1930. Nag-aral siya ng kolehiyo sa National University (Manila) ngunit hindi niya natapos ang kanyang undergraduate degree. Habang nasa Manila, nagsulat si Gonzales para sa Philippine Graphic at naging patnugot para sa Evening News Magazine at Manila Chronicle. Nalathala ang una niyang sanaysay sa Philippine Graphic at ang una niyang tula sa Poetry noong 1934. Naging kilala ang pangalan niya sa mga manunulat ng Pilipinas bilang isang miyembro ng Board of Advisers ng Likhaan: the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, patnugot ng The Diliman Review at unang presidente ng Philippine Writers' Association.
Nag-aral ng malikhaing pagsulat si Gonzales kay Wallace Stegner at Katherine Anne Porter sa Stanford University. Noong 1950, bumalik si Gonzales sa Philippinas at nagturo sa University of Santo Tomas, sa Philippine Women's University at sa University of the Philippines (U.P.). Sa U.P., si Gonzales ang isa sa dalawang propesor na natanggap upang magturo sa unibersidad bagamat wala siyang hawak na degree. Dahil sa kanyang panitikan at mga parangal, nagturo si Gonzales sa University of California, Santa Barbara, California State University, Hayward, sa University of Washington, sa University of California, Los Angeles, at sa University of California, Berkeley.

Noong 14 Abril 1987, ibinigay ngUniversity of the Philippines kay N.V.M. González ang degree na Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at sinabi na ito ay "For his creative genius in shaping the Philippine short story and novel, and making a new clearing within the English idiom and tradition on which he established an authentic vocabulary, ...for his insightful criticism by which he advanced the literary tradition of the Filipino and enriched the vocation for all writers of the present generation...for his visions and auguries by which he gave the Filipino sense and sensibility a profound and unmistakable script read and reread throughout the international community of letters..."

Iprinoklama na National Artist of the Philippines si N.V.M Gonzales noong 1997. Namatay siya noong 28 Nobyembre 1999 sa Quezon City, Philippines sa edad na 84. Bilang National Artist, pinarangalan si Gonzales at inilibing sa Libingan ng mga Bayani.

Mga gawa 
Ang mga gawa ni Gonzalez ay nalathala sa Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Indonesian.

Nobela 
 The Winds of April (1941)
 A Season of Grace (1956)
  The Bamboo Dancers (1988)

Short fiction 
 A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997
 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993
 Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989
 Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964
 Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963
 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classic, 1992
 Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947

Essays 
 A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968-1994. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Anvil (popular edition), 1996
 Work on the Mountain (Includes The Father and the Maid, Essays on Filipino Life and Letters and Kalutang: A Filipino in the World), University of the Philippines Press, 1996

Kawing panlabas 
 On NVM, Peso Books, Publishing and Writing by Alberto Florentino
 Books of N.V.M. González
 N.V.M. Gonzalez: An Affair With Letters
 N.V.M. Gonzalez: Filipino Writer by Isagani R. Cruz 
 Literary giant’s legacy survives fire by Lakambini A. Sitoy 
 N.V.M. Gonzalez, A Tribute by Allan G. Aquino 
 N.V.M. Gonzalez (1915 - 1999) A guide to literary criticism on the internet for N.V.M. Gonzalez 
 On N.V.M. Gonzalez
 N.V.M. Gonzalez Awards
 National Artists: N.V.M. Gonzalez 
 NVM Gonzalez A writer's inspiration: UP bestows 5th NVM Awards on Saturday 
 THE SYNTAX OF NIGHTMARES: A Review of N.V.M. Gonzalez's A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories by Maureen Gaddi dela Cruz
 BLOWIN' IN THE WIND: A review of The Winds of April by NVM Gonzalez by Nina Somea

Kultura
Kultura at sining
Kultura ng Pilipinas
Gawad ng Pamahalaan ng Pilipinas
Ipinanganak noong 1915
Namatay noong 1999