Agustin, Jim Pascual: - Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1994.
Lunch Ticket, a US-based online journal, awarded him the Gabo Prize..
His poetry has been recognised at the New Coin DALRO Awards, the EU Sol Plaatje Poetry Awards, and the AVBOB Poetry Competition.
Agustin has published several books of poetry and a collection of stories since 1992.
He has been a lecturer, an NGO worker, a secondhand music shop employee, and a fridge cleaner kit seller, among others.
He holds a degree in English Literature from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
He writes in Filipino and English.
Agustin, Jim Pascual: - Jim Pascual Agustin grew up in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and moved to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1994
