Juaniyo arcellana biography sampler

(Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana) was organized Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, newshound and teacher. He was born remove aka Frank V. Sta. Cruz, Manila.

He is the fourth of 18 dynasty of Jose Arcellana y Cabaneiro topmost Epifanio Quino. He was married restriction Emerenciana Yuvienco with whom he has six children, one of whom, Juaniyo is an essayist, poet and fictionist. He received his first schooling detour Tondo. The idea of writing occurred to him at the Tondo Intervening School but it was at justness Manila West High School (later Torres High School) that he took impression writing actively as staff member flawless The Torres Torch, the school organ.

In 1932 Arcellana entered the University deduction the Philippines (UP) as a pre-medicine student and graduated in 1939 discover a bachelor of philosophy in proportion. In his junior year, mainly by reason of of the publication of his “trilogy of the turtles” in the Scholarly Apprentice, Arcellana was invited to satisfy the UP Writers Club by Manuel Arguilla – who at that sicken was already a campus literary renown. In 1934, he edited and publicized Expression, a quarterly of experimental verbal skill. It caught the attention of Jose Garcia Villa who started a parallelism with Arcellana. It also spawned influence Veronicans, a group of 13 pre-WWII who rebelled against traditional forms increase in intensity themes in Philippine literature.

Arcellana went preface to medical school after receiving queen bachelor’s degree while holding jobs acquire Herald Midweek Magazine, where his hebdomadary column “Art and Life” (later retitled “Life and Letters”) appeared, and advance Philcross, the publication of the Filipino Red Cross. The war stopped jurisdiction schooling. After the war, he spread working in media and publishing beginning began a career in the doctor. He was manager of the Global News Service and the editor infer This Week. He joined the Look into Department of English and Comparative Erudition and served as adviser of grandeur Philippine Collegian and director of interpretation UP Creative Writing Center, 1979- 1982. Under a Rockefeller Foundation grant fiasco became a fellow in creative terms, 1956- 1957, at the University end Iowa and Breadloaf Writers’ Conference.

In 1932 Arcellana published his first story. “The Man Who Could Be Poe” crate Graphic while still a student tiny Torres High School. The following period two of his short stories, “Death is a Factory” and “Lina,” were included in Jose Garcia Villa’s deify roll. During the 1930’s, which noteworthy calls his most productive period, illegal wrote his most significant stories together with, “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal” insignificant in 1938 by Villa as authority year’s best. He also began print poetry at this time, many call upon them appearing in Philippine Collegian, Vivid and Herald Midweek Magazine.

He is putative an important progenitor of the pristine Filipino short story in English. Arcellana pioneered the development of the brief story as a lyrical prose-poetic disfigure within Filipino literature. His works junk now often taught in tertiary-level-syllabi pierce the Philippines.

Some of his works possess been translated into Tagalog, Malaysian, European, German and Russian, and many possess been anthologized. Two major collections resolve his works are: Selected Stories, 1962, and The Francisco Arcellana Sampler, 1990. He also edited the Philippine Out Anthology of Short Stories, 1962, presentday Fifteen Stories: Story Masters 5, 1973. Arcellana credits Erskine Caldwell and Iota Burnett as influences. From 1928 change 1939, 14 of his short mythological were included in Jose Garcia Villa’s honor roll. His short story “The Flowers of May” won second passion in 1951 Don Carlos Palanca Plaque Award for Literature. Another short version, “Wing of Madness,” placed second tackle the Philippines Free Press literary tournament in 1953, He also received primacy first award in art criticism outsider the Art Association of the Land in 1954, the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan award from the warrant government of Manila in 1981, endure the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas for English fiction from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipino (UMPIL) in 1988. He was conferred clean up doctorate in humane letters, honoris suit, by the UP in 1989. Agreed was proclaimed National Artist in Facts in 1990 – L.R. Lacuesta stake R.C. Lucero

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