Charlson Ong has published four collections of short fiction Men of the East and other stories, Woman of Amkaw and other stories, Conversion and other fictions, and Of that Other Country we now speak as well as five novels An Embarrassment of Riches, Banyaga: A Song of War, Blue Angel/White Shadow and White Lady Black Christ, The Arhat Son. His short fiction has been compiled in Sojourner, Settler, Seer (MILFLORES, 2024).
He has won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in English, the PH National Book Award for both short fiction and the novel. He has also won a Filipino Academy of Motion Picture Arts (FAMAS) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for TANABATA’S WIFE that he wrote co-produced and co-directed.
He is a board member of Philippine Chapter of the International PEN.
