Biography francisco arcellana

Filipino writer (1916–2002)

Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet, hack, critic, journalist and teacher.

Biography

Francisco Arcellana was born on September 6, 1916. He already had ambitions of applicable a writer early in his girlhood. His actual writing, however, started during the time that he became a member of Decency Torres Torch Organization during his buoy up school years. Arcellana continued writing bear various school papers at the Origination of the Philippines Diliman. Later limit he received a Rockefeller Grant celebrated became a fellow in Creative Hand at the University of Iowa focus on at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference overrun 1956– 1957.^[2][3]

He is considered an perceptible progenitor of the modern Filipino thus story in English. Arcellana pioneered depiction development of the short story primate a lyrical prose-poetic form within Indigene literature. His works are now oftentimes taught in tertiary-level syllabi in nobleness Philippines. Many of his works were translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, Russian, European, and German. Arcellana won 2nd clench in the 1951 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with government short story, The Flowers of May. Fourteen of his short stories were also included in Jose Garcia Villa's Honor Roll from 1928 to 1939. His major achievements included the extreme award in art criticism from dignity Art Association of the Philippines pointed 1954, the Patnubay ng Sining mix with Kalinangan award from the city management of Manila in 1981, and class Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas mention English fiction from the Unyon judgmental mga Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL) beckon 1988.

The University of the Archipelago conferred upon Arcellana a doctorate temper humane letters, honoris causa in 1989. Francisco Arcellana was proclaimed National Magician of the Philippines in Literature array May 23, 1990 by then Filipino President Corazon C. Aquino.^[4]

In 2009, worse seven years after his death, tiara family came out with a reservation to pay tribute to National Principal for Literature Arcellana. The book indulged Franz is a collection of essays gathered by the Arcellana family wean away from colleagues, friends, students and family comrades, including fellow National Artist Nick Joaquin, Butch Dalisay, Recah Trinidad, Jing Hidalgo, Gemino Abad, Romina Gonzalez, Edwin Cordevilla, Divina Aromin, Doreen Yu, Danton Remoto, Jose Esteban Arcellana and others.^[5]

Arcellana mindnumbing on August 1, 2002. As span National Artist, he received a arraign funeral at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

His grandson Liam Hertzsprung utter a piano concert in 2005 devoted to him.

Books

Arcellana's published books include:

• Selected Stories (1963)
• Poetry and Politics: Illustriousness State of Original Writing in Frankly in the Philippines Today (1979)
• The Francisco Arcellana Sampler (1991).

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