the vocation for all writers of the present generation...For his visions and auguries by which he gave the Filipino sense and sensibility a profound and unmistakable script read and reread throughout the international community of letters..." N.V.M. González was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in 1997. He died on 28 November 1999 at the age of 84. As a National Artist, Gonzalez was honored with a state funeral at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Works The works of Gonzalez have been published in Filipino, English, Chinese, German, Russian and Indonesian. Novels/poetry The Winds of April (1941) A Season of Grace (1956) The Bamboo Dancers (1988) The Land and the Rain The Happiest Boy in The World Bread of Salt Short fiction "The Tomato Game".1992 A Grammar of Dreams and Other Stories. University of the Philippines Press, 1997 The Bread of Salt and Other Stories. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993; University of the Philippines Press, 1993 Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one Stories. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1981; New Day, 1989 Selected Stories. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1964 Look, Stranger, on this Island Now. Manila: Benipayo, 1963 Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and Other Stories. Manila: Benipayo, 1954; Bookmark Filipino Literary Classic, 1992 Seven Hills Away. Denver, Colorado: Alan Swallow, 1947 Essays A Novel of Justice: Selected Essays 1968–1994. Manila: National Commission for Culture and the Arts and Anvil (popular edition), 1996 Work on the Mountain (Includes The Father and the Maid, Essays on Filipino Life and Letters and Kalutang: A Filipino in the World), University of the Philippines Press, 1996 Awards and prizes Given a Trophy from A Jokarts company (1997–1998)Regents Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, 1998–1999Philippines Centennial Award for Literature, 1998National Artist Award for Literature, 1997Oriental Mindoro Sangguniang Panlalawigan Resolution "extending due recognition to Nestor V. M. González... the commendation he well deserves..." 1996City of Manila Diwa ng Lahi award "for his service and contribution to Philippine national Literature," 1996City of Los Angeles resolution declaring 11 October 1996 "N.V.M. González Day, 1996The Asian Catholic Publishers Award, 1993The Filipino Community of California Proclamation "honoring N.V.M. González for seventy-eight years of achievements," 1993Ninoy Aquino Movement for Social and Economic Reconstruction through Volunteer Service award, 1991 City and County of San Francisco proclamation of 7 March 1990 "Professor N.V.M. González Day in San Francisco," 1990 Cultural Center of the Philippines award, Gawad Para sa Sining,