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Estrella Alfon, who hailed from Cebu, was born on 1917. She is a
well-known storywriter,playwright and journalist; and though a
Cebuana, she wrote almost exclusively in English.
Unlike other writers of her time, she did not come from the
intelligensia. She attended
college, and studied medicine; however, when she was mistakenly
diagnosed withtuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium, she resigned
from her pre-medical education, and left
with an Associate of Arts degree from the University of the
Philippines. In spite of havingonly an A.A. degree, she was
eventually appointed as a professor of Creative Writing at the
University of thePhilippines, Manila. She was a member of the
U.P. Writers Club, she heldthe National Fellowship in Fiction post
at the U.P. Creative Writing Center in 1979.
She became a member of the U. P. Writers Club and was given the
privileged post
of National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U. P. Creative
Writing Center. Her first story,Grey Confetti, was published in
graphic in 1935.
She was the only female member of the Veronicans, an avant garde
group of
writers in the 1930s led by Francisco Arcellana and H.R. Ocampo,
she was also regarded astheir muse. The Veronicans are recognized
as the first group of Filipino writers to writealmost exclusively
in English and were formed prior to the World War II. She is
also
reportedly the most prolific Filipina writer prior to World War
II. She was a regularcontributor to Manila-based national
magazines; she had several stories cited in Jose GarciaVillas
annual honor rolls. She also served on the Philippine Board of
Tourism in the 1970s.
Some of her achievements are:
1940: A collection of her early short stories, Dear Esmeralda,
won Honorable
Mention in the Commonwealth Literary Award.
1961-1962: Four of her one-act plays won all the prizes in the
Arena Theater Play WritingContest: Losers Keepers (first prize),
Strangers (second prize), Rice (third prize), and
Beggar (fourth prize).
1961-1962: Won top prize in the Palanca Contest for With Patches
of Many Hues.
1974: Second place Palanca Award for her short story, "The White
Dress".
1979: National Fellowship in Fiction post at the U.P. Creative
WritingCenter.
Palanca Awards Forever Witches, One-act Play (Third place,
1960)
With Patches of Many Hues, One-act Play (First place, 1962)
Tubig, One-act Play (Second place, 1963) The Knitting Straw,
One-act Play, (Third place, 1968)
The White Dress, Short Story (Second place, 1974)
Stories
Magnificence and Other Stories(1960) Stories of Estrella
Alfon(1994, published posthumously)
Servant Girt(short story)
English
Alfon died on December, 28 1983, following a heart attack
suffered on-stage during Awards
night of the Manila Film Festival.
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Francisco Arcellana, writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist
and teacher, is one of the
most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in
English. He pioneered the
development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form.
For Arcellana, the pride offiction is "that it is able to render
truth, that is able to present reality". Arcellana has kept
alive the experimental tradition in fiction, and has been most
daring in exploring newliterary forms to express the sensibility of
the Filipino people. A brilliant craftsman, his
works are now an indispensable part of a tertiary-level-syllabi
all over the country.Arcellana's published books areSelected
Stories(1962), Poetry and Politics: The State
of Original Writing in English in the Philippines Today(1977),
The FranciscoArcellana Sampler(1990).
Francisco "Franz"[1]
Arcellana(September 6, 1916 August 1, 2002) was
aFilipinowriter,poet,essayist,critic,journalistandteacher.He was
born on September 16, 1916.
Arcellana already had ambitions of becoming a writer during his
years in the elementary. His actual
writing, however, started when he became a member ofThe Torres
TorchOrganization during his high
school years. Arcellana continued writing in various school
papers at the University of the Philippines
Diliman. He later on received a Rockfeller Grant and became a
fellow in creative writing the University of
Iowa and Breadloaf's writers conference from 1956- 1957.
He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino
short story inEnglish.Arcellana
pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical
prose-poetic form within Filipino literature. His
works are now often taught in tertiary-level-syllabi in
thePhilippines.Many of his works were translated
into Tagalog, Malaysian, Russian, Italian, and German. Arcellana
won 2nd place in 1951 Don Carlos
Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, with his short story,
"The Flowers of May." 14 of his short stories
were also included in Jose Garcia Villa's Honor Roll from 1928
to 1939. His major achievements included
the first award in art criticism from the Art Association of the
Philippines in 1954, the Patnubay ng Sining
at Kalinangan award from the city government of Manila in 1981,
and the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni
Balagtas for English fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa
Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988. Francisco
Arcellana was proclaimed National Artist of the Philippines in
Literature in 1990.
Arcellana is buried at theLibingan ng mga Bayani.Arcellana died
in 2002. As a National Artist, he received a state funeral at the
Libingan ng mgaBayani.His grandson Liam Hertzsprung performed a
piano concert in 2006 dedicated to him.Arcellana's published books
include:
Selected Stories(1962)
Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in
the Philippines Today(1977)
The Francisco Arcellana Sampler(1990) Arcellana was a master of
words, and a master ofstorytelling.
His stories had plots intricate with twists and turns, but it
was the way he wrote the stories, the wordshe used and how he
strung them together, that set them apart as masterpieces.And what
masterpieces they were! The Flowers of May, which won the 1951
Palanca LiteratureAward,Trilogy of the Turtles,published in the UP
Literary Apprentice which gained him entry intothe prestigious UP
Writers Club, The Mats, re-issued in 1995 as a childrens storybook,
twoversions of Wing of Madness, two versions as well of Divideby
Two. His works defined what shortstory writing could and should
be.While his short stories are his most famous and certainly among
his best written works, Franz wasalso a journalist. He was writer,
columnist and/or editor of several magazines and a news
serviceduring the late 1930s up to the 1950s. Of this body of works
his columns Through a Glass,Darklystand out as particularly fine
examples of good writing.He embarked on an academic career
byjoining the University of the Philippines Department of English
and Comparative Literature as aninstructor in 1953, and retired 29
years later.
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