Dean Francis Alfar
Legal name: Alfar, Dean Francis
Birth place: Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Birth date: 2 January 1969
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: See also under Asia-specific anthologies.
Biographic comments:
Novels
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories
2007
< First edition, 2007
Flipside
Paperback
Unknown cover price
Notes:
Fiction: Terminós // The Kite of Stars (L'Aquilone du Estrellas) // Saturdays with Fray Villalobos // The Maiden and
the Crocodile // Dragon Eyes // How Rosang Taba Won a Race // An Excerpt from "Princes of the Sultanate"
(Ghazali: 1902); Annotated by Omar Jamad Maududi, MLS, HOL, JMS // The Middle Prince // The New Daughter //
Into the Morning // In the Dim Plane // Six from Downtown // Four-Letter Words // (push) // MaMachine // Hollow
Girl: A Romance
How to Traverse Terra Incognita
2012
< First edition, August 2012
Flipside
ISBN 978-971-9951-12-4
Digital
No cover price
Notes:
Fiction: Simon's Replica // Fallow's Flight // In the City of a Thousand Gods // Strange Weather // Ghosts of Wan
Chai // Securing Doors from Fathers // Survey of Artifacts Found Aboard the Malaya // Packing for the Moon //
Bruhita // Poor, Poor Luisa // Azamgal // Escape // East of the Sun // Ever, After // Messiah // The Many Loves
of Ramil Alonzo // Remembrance // The Face // Sunboy // The Fortune-Teller's Beautiful Daughter // An Excerpt
from A Door Opens: the Beginning of the Fall of the Ispancialo-in-Hinirang (Emprensa Press: 2007) by Salahuddin
Alonto, Annotated by Omar Jamad Maududi, MLS, HOL, JMS
A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila
2015
< First edition, September 2015
Anvil Publishing
ISBN 978-971-27-3150-1
Trade paperback, 175 pages
₱350
Notes:
• Each story is illustrated by Andrew Drilon.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila // Ohkti // The New Daughter // Things // Godfathers // Notes on an
Ascent // The Girl with the Gun // Float // Brother Sister // Steps // City Crossing // Dai Vidas du'l Grandu
Investigadores: El Caso du'l Toro Perduto (From the Lives of the Great Detectives: The Case of the Missing Bull) //
Gloves & Goggles // Jianghu // This Is the Story
Stars in Jars: Strange and Fantastic Stories
with Sage Alfar
2018
< First edition, 21 January 2018
Adarna House
ISBN 978-971-508-713-1
Trade paperback, 68 pages
₱199.00
Notes:
Fiction: undetermined
Salamanca
2005
< First edition, 2005
Ateneo de Manila University Press
ISBN 971-550-491-4
Trade paperback, 159 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Winner of the 2005 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award Grand Prize for the Novel and the 2008 Gintong Aklat
Award for Literature.
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