John talks to Filipino-born writer Miguel Syjuco, winner of the 2010 Man Asia Award at 2012 Adelaide Writers’ Week. Miguel Syjuco’s novel ‘Ilustrado’ opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. This is an ambitious and daring first novel in which Miguel Syjuco explores fatherhood, regret, revolution and the mysteries of lives lived and abandoned.
Miguel Syjuco
