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Maningning Miclat was born a Filipino on April 15, 1972 in Beijing, China. She was known for her Chinese bamboo Zen paintings and poetry in three languages: Filipino, Mandarin, and English.[1] In 1987, she published her first book of poems, Wo De Shi, in Mandarin, and held her first solo show of traditional Chinese painting, Maningning: An Exhibit of Chinese Brush Works.[2] She had four more solo shows in her lifetime. Miclat became a Fellow of the University of the Philippines National Writers Workshop in 1990 and won an award for a Filipino play there.[1] She also became a Fellow of the Silliman National Writers Workshop. In 1992, she won the Art Association of the Philippines Grand Prize for a painting entitled Trouble in Paradise and her second book of poetry, Voice from the Underworld, was a finalist in the country's 2001 National Book Award.[3]
In 2000, she fell from the seventh floor of the Far Eastern University in Manila where she was teaching at the time.[4] In 2001, the Maningning Foundation was founded in her memory to celebrate the talents of young artists both visual and written.[5]
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