TORRES, JOSE VICTOR Z.
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A multi-awarded writer, Palanca award-winning playwright, and essayist, Dr. JOSE VICTOR Z. TORRES is an associate professor at the History Department of the De La Salle University-Manila and Associate Director for Drama and History at the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center in the same university. He has a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Graduate School. A former researcher of the Intramuros Administration, his book Ciudad Murada: A Walk Through Historic Intramuros won the National Book Award for Travel Writing in 2006. In 2012, he won a Special Jury Prize at the Premio Tomas: The UST Quadricentennial Literary Prize – Essay Category (Premio Mabini) for a non-fiction work about the University of Santo Tomas during World War II which was published in 2013 with the title A Wartime Legacy: The University of Santo Tomas During the Second World War (1941-1945). He is the author and editor of fourteen books on drama and history. In 2014, he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate School Alumni in the Field of History by the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School during its 75th Foundation Year Celebration.