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F. Sionil José or Francisco Sionil José, born December 3, 1924, is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. His series of novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. Jose's works had been translated into 22 other languages.[1][2][3][4] December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Biography
Childhood F. Sionil Jose is an Ilocano born in Rosales, Pangasinan, which is the setting of many of his stories. Jose spent his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan, Rosales, which is also the town where he began to write. Fleeing poverty, his forefathers traveled from Ilocos towards Cagayan Valley through the Santa Fe Trail. Like many migrant families, they brought their lifetime possessions with them, including uprooted molave posts of their old houses and their alsong, a stone mortar for pounding rice.[1][2][3][4] Ilocano, also Iloko and Ilokano, refers to the language and culture associated with the Ilocano people, the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. ...
Rosales is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. ...
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Ilocos collectively refers to two provinces in the Philippines: Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur. ...
Cagayan Valley (Lambak ng Cagayan in Filipino) is a region of the Philippines, also designated as Region II or Region 02. ...
“"You ask me why I write. Many of our people do not realize how important the arts are. They think writers are entertainers. But what writers do is create the cultural foundation of a nation. I want to relive our history. I want to give our people memory. My tradition is the village. My tradition is this small town. In many ways, I never really left Barrio Cabugawan."- F. Sionil Jose, Global Nation, Inquirer.net, April 25, 2007[3] One of the greatest influences to Jose was his industrious mother who went out of her way to get Jose the books he loved to read, while making sure her family did not go hungry despite of poverty and landlessness. Jose started writing in grade school, at the time he started reading. In the fifth grade, one of Jose’s teachers opened the school library to her students, which is how Jose managed to read the novels of José Rizal, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Reading about Basilio and Crispin in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere made the young Jose cry, because injustice was not an alien thing to him. When Jose was five years old, his grandfather who is a soldier during the Philippine revolution, had once tearfully showed him the land their family had once tilled but was taken away by rich mestizo landlords who knew how to work the system against illiterates like his grandfather.[1][2][3][4] Julio Pérez Ferrero Library - Cúcuta, Colombia A modern-style library in Chambéry A library is a collection of information resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, institution, or private individual. ...
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Noli Me Tangere is a Spanish-language novel written by José P. Rizal, and published in 1887, in Europe. ...
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Life as a writer Jose attended the University of Santo Tomas after World War II, but dropped-out and plunged into writing and journalism in Manila. In subsequent years, he edited various literary and journalistic publications, started a publishing house, and founded the Philippine branch of PEN, an international organization for writers. José received numerous awards for his work. The Pretenders is his most popular novel, which is the story of one man's alienation from his poor background and the decadence of his wife's wealthy family.[1][2][3][4] The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines (or simply the University of Santo Tomas, UST or affectionately, USTe), is a private Roman Catholic university run by the Order of Preachers in Manila. ...
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Nickname: Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Manila Coordinates: 14°35 N 121° E Country Philippines Region National Capital Region Districts 1st to 6th districts of Manila Barangays 897 Incorporated (city) June 10, 1574 Government - Mayor Jose L. Atienza, Jr. ...
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Throughout his career, Jose's writings espouse social justice and change to better the lives of average Filipino families. He is one of the most critically acclaimed Filipino authors internationally, although much underrated in his own country because of his authentic Filipino English and his anti-elite views.[1][2][3][4] Philippine English is the variery of English used in the Republic of the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos. ...
"Authors like myself choose the city as a setting for their fiction because the city itself illustrates the progress or the sophistication that a particular country has achieved. Or, on the other hand, it might also reflect the kind of decay, both social and perhaps moral, that has come upon a particular people."-F. Sionil Jose, BBC.com, July 30, 2003[1] Sionil Jose also owns a bookshop, Solidaridad Bookshop, which is located in Padre Faura Street, Ermita, Manila. The bookshop offers mostly hard-to-find books and Filipiniana reading materials. It is said to be one of the favorite haunts of many local writers.[1][2][3][4] Ermita is a district of Manila, Philippines located halfway between Intramuros (the old walled city) and Malate. ...
Filipiniana refers to Philippine-related literary material, and literature written in Filipino and other Philippine dialects and languages. ...
Works
Rosales Saga Novels A five-novel series that spans three centuries of Philippine history, widely read around the world and translated into 22 languages - Po-on (Roots) (English, 1984)
- Tree (1978) ISBN 9718845143
- My Brother, My Executioner (1973) ISBN 971884516X
- The Pretenders (1962) ISBN 9718845003
- Mass (December 31, 1974) ISBN 0868615722
Original Novels Containing the Rosales Saga - Dusk (1993) ISBN 0375751440
- Don Vicente (1980) ISBN 0375752439
- The Samsons ISBN 0375752447
Other Novels - Gagamba The Spider Man (1991) ISBN 9715361056
- Viajero (1993) ISBN 9718845046
- Sins (1994) ISBN 0517284464
- Ben Singkol (2001) ISBN 9718845321
- Ermita ISBN 9718845127
Novellas - Three Filipino Women (1992) ISBN 9718845291
- Two Filipino Women (1978)
Short Story Collection - The God Stealer and Other Short Stories (2001) ISBN 9718845356
- Puppy Love and Other Short Stories (March 15, 1998) ISBN 9718845267 and ISBN 978-9718845264
- Olvidon and Other Stories (1988) ISBN 9718845186
- Platinum: Ten Filipino Stories (1983) ISBN 9718845224
- Waywaya: Eleven Filipino Short Stories (1980) ISBN 999228840X
- Asian PEN Anthology (as editor) (1966)
- Short Story International (SSI): Tales by the World's Great Contemporary Writers (Unabridged, Volume 13, Number 75) (co-author, 1989) ISBN 1555730426
Verses
Essays and Non-Fiction - In Search of the Word (De La Salle University Press, March 15, 1998) ISBN 9715552641 and ISBN 978-9715552646
- We Filipinos: Our Moral Malaise, Our Heroic Heritage
- Soba, Senbei and Shibuya: A Memoir of Post-War Japan ISBN 9718845313 and ISBN 978-9718845318
- Heroes in the Attic, Termites in the Sala: Why We are Poor (2005)
- This Believe: Gleanings from a Life in Literature (2006)
- Literature and Liberation (co-author) (1988)
In Translation - Po-on (Tagalog language, De La Salle University Press, 1998) ISBN 9715552676 and ISBN 978-9715552677
- Anochecer (Littera) (Spanish language, Maeva, October 2003) ISBN 8495354950 and ISBN 978-8495354952
Tagalog can mean: The Tagalog language, the most widely-spoken of the Philippine languages. ...
This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...
In Anthologies - Tong (a short story from Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Philippine Literature in English by Luis Francia, Rutgers University Press, August 1993) ISBN 0813519993 and ISBN 978-0813519999
In Film Documentaries - Francisco Sionil Jose - A Filipino Odyssey by Art Makosinski, 1996[5]
Awards The Ramon Magsaysay Award was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) based in New York City. ...
A National Artist of the Philippines is a title given to a Filipino who has been given the highest recognition for having made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts, namely, Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film, Broadcast Arts, Fashion Design and Architecture, and Allied Arts. ...
Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the penname of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalà Reyes Basoalto. ...
The Palanca Awards or Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature is the Philippines most prestigious and most enduring literary awards and is dubbed as the Pulitzer Prize of the Philippines. ...
Books and excerpts about F. Sionil Jose
Titles - Frankie Sionil Jose: A Tribute by Edwin Thuboo (editor) (Times Academic Press, Singapore, January 2005) ISBN 9812104259 and ISBN 978-9812104250
- Conversations with F. Sionil Jose by Miguel A. Bernard (editor) (Vera-Reyes Publishing Inc., Philippines, 304 pages, 1991
- The Ilocos: A Philippine Discovery by James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly magazine, Volume 267, No. 5, May 1991
- F. Sionil Jose and His Fiction by Alfredo T. Morales (Vera-Reyes Publishing Inc., Philippines, 129 pages)
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Reviews -
"...the foremost Filipno novelist in English... his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer. His major work, the Rosales saga, can be read as an allegory for the Filipino in search of an identity..." - Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books[7] -
"Sionil Jose writes English prose with a passion that, at its best moments, transcends the immediate scene. (He) is a masterful short story writer..." - Christine Chapman, International Herald Tribune, Paris[7] -
"...America has no counterpart to Jose - no one who is simultaneously a prolific novelist, a social and political organizer, and a small scale entrepreneur...Jose's identity has equiped him to be fully sensitive to the nation's miseries without succumbing, like many of his characters to corruption or despair...- James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly[7] -
"...The reader of his well crafted stories will learn more about the Philippines, its people and its concerns than from any journalistic account or from a holiday trip there. Jose's books takes us to the heart of the Filipino mind and soul, to the strengths and weaknesses of its men, women, and culture. - Lynne Bundesen, Los Angeles Times[7]
References - ^ a b c d e f g Jose, F. Sionil. Sense of the City: Manila, BBC News, BBC.co.uk, July 30, 2003, retrieved on June 14, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f Author Spotlight: F. Sionil Jose, Random House, RandomHouse.com, retrieved on June 14, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g Macansantos, Priscilla Supnet. A Hometown as Literature for F. Sionil José, Global Nation/Features, Inquirer, Inquirer.net, April 25, 2007, retrieved on: June 14, 2007
- ^ a b c d e f Yabes, Leopoldo Y. and Judson Knight, Francisco Sionil Jose Biography, Contemporary Novelists, Volume 16, Jrank.org, retrieved on June 16, 2007
- ^ Makosinski, Art. Francisco Sionil Jose - A Filipino Odyssey, documentary, color, 28min, 16mm., Winner of the Golden Shortie for Best Documentary at the Victoria Film and Video Festival, ME.UVIC.ca, 1996), retrieved on: June 16, 2007
- ^ Culture Profile: F. Sionil Jose, About Culture and Arts, National Commission for Culture and Arts, NCCA.gov, 2002, retrieved on: June 16, 2007
- ^ a b c d Makosinski, Art. About Francisco Sionil Jose, Engr.Uvic.ca, retrieved on: June 16, 2007
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External links and further readings - The Writings of F. Sionil Jose, Archives, The New York Times, NYTimes.com, retreived on: June 16, 2007
- The Works of Francisco Sionil Jose, The New York Public Library, NYPL.org (Search Engine), retrieved on: June 16, 2007
- Books of F. Sionil Jose, Amazon.com, retrieved on: June 16, 2007
- Filipino English: Literature As We Think It (from F. Sionil Jose's Keynote Lecture at the Conference on "Literatures in Englishes" at the National University of Singapore), F. Sionil Jose: National Artist for Literature, Foremost Novelist, and Stanford.edu, March 19, 2006, retrieved on: June 6 2007
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