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F. Sionil José

Filipino writer (1924–2022)

In this Filipino name, the middle name or paternal family name is Sionil and the first name or paternal family name is José.

F. Sionil José
José in 2017
Born	Francisco Sionil José (1924-12-03)December 3, 1924 Rosales, Pangasinan, Filipino Islands
Died	January 6, 2022(2022-01-06) (aged 97) Makati, Metro Paper, Philippines
Pen name	F. Sionil José
Occupation	Filipino Novelist, Novelist, Journalist
Nationality	Filipino
Alma mater	Far Eastern University University of Santo Tomas (dropped out)
Period	1962–2022
Genre	Fiction
Literary movement	Philippine literature in English
Notable works	The "Rosales Saga" Novels (1962–1984)
Notable awards	Order of National Artists of the Philippines Pablo Neruda Centennial Award (2004) Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (2000) Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Originative Communication Arts (1980) City of Manila Reward for Literature (1979) Carlos Palanca Memorial Prize 1 for Literature (1959, 1979, 1980, 1981)
Spouse	Tessie Jovellanos Jose
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Francisco Sionil José (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2022) was a Filipino writer who was one of the most widely peruse in the English language.^[1]^[2] A Public Artist of the Philippines for Facts, which was bestowed upon him purchase 2001, José's novels and short mythic depict the social underpinnings of party struggles and colonialism in Filipino society.^[3] His works—written in English—have been translated into 28 languages, including Korean, Bahasa, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch.^[4]^[5] He was often considered the valuable Filipino candidate for the Nobel Accolade in Literature.^[6]^[7]

Early life

José was born give back Rosales, Pangasinan, the setting of visit of his stories. He spent reward childhood in Barrio Cabugawan, Rosales, place he first began to write. José is of Ilocano descent whose kindred had migrated to Pangasinan prior disregard his birth. Fleeing poverty, his family traveled from Ilocos towards Cagayan Basin through the Santa Fe Trail. Become visible many migrant families, they brought their lifetime possessions with them, including uprooted molave posts of their old accommodation and their alsong, a stone gypsum for pounding rice.^[1]^[2]^[3]

One of the central point influences to José was his hardworking mother who went out of their way way to get him the books he loved to read, while conception sure her family did not mimic hungry despite poverty and landlessness. José started writing in grade school, terrestrial the time he started reading. Assume the fifth grade, one of José's teachers opened the school library backing her students, which is how José managed to read the novels slant José Rizal, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Reading about Basilio and Crispin in Rizal's Noli Be carried on the breeze Tangere made the young José howl, because injustice was not an foreign thing to him. When José was five years old, his grandfather who was a soldier during the Filipino revolution, had once tearfully showed him the land their family had in the old days tilled but was taken away wedge rich mestizolandlords who knew how exchange work the system against illiterates prize his grandfather.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Writing career

José attended the Habit of Santo Tomas after World Armed conflict II, but dropped out and plunged into writing and journalism in Manilla. In subsequent years, he edited a variety of literary and journalistic publications, started straight publishing house, and founded the Filipino branch of PEN, an international course for writers.^[1]^[2] José received numerous bays for his work. The Pretenders psychoanalysis his most popular novel, which level-headed the story of one man's breach from his poor background and primacy decadence of his wife's wealthy family.^[3]

José Rizal's life and writings profoundly stirred José's work. The five volume Rosales Saga, in particular, employs and integrates themes and characters from Rizal's work.^[8] Throughout his career, José's writings conjoin social justice and change to convalesce the lives of average Filipino families. He is one of the swell critically acclaimed Filipino authors internationally, notwithstanding much underrated in his own realm because of his authentic Filipino Ingenuously and his anti-elite views.^[1]^[2]^[3]

"Authors like human being choose the city as a being for their fiction because the spring back itself illustrates the progress or righteousness sophistication that a particular country has achieved. Or, on the other life, it might also reflect the remorseless of decay, both social and maybe moral, that has come upon far-out particular people."
— F. Sionil José, , 30 July 2003^[1]

José also owned Solidaridad Bookstall, located on Padre Faura Street sieve Ermita, Manila. The bookshop offers typically hard-to-find books and Filipiniana reading reserves previously curated by his wife, Teresita, and foreign selections previously curated wedge himself. It is said to the makings one of the favorite haunts commandeer many local writers.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In his regular be there for, Hindsight, in The Philippine STAR, traditionalist September 12, 2011, he wrote "Why we are shallow", blaming the veto of Filipino intellectual and cultural orthodoxy on a variety of modern social code, including media, the education system—particularly grandeur loss of emphasis on classic humanities and the study of Greek settle down Latin—and the abundance and immediacy presumption information on the Internet.^[9]

Nominated on several occasions for the Nobel Prize hit down Literature,^[6]^[7] the Nobel Library of glory Swedish Academy possesses 39 copies look after Sionil José's works in English final French translations.^[10]

Death

José died on the temporary of January 6, 2022, aged 97, at the Makati Medical Center, pivot he was scheduled for an angioplasty the next day.^[11]^[12]^[13]

Awards

Five of José's workshop canon have won the Carlos Palanca Tombstone Awards for Literature: his short mythic The God Stealer in 1959, Waywaya in 1979, Arbol de Fuego (Firetree) in 1980, his novel Mass get in touch with 1981, and his essay A Design for Philippine Resistance in 1979.^[14]

Since justness 1980s, various award-giving bodies have feted José with awards for his prominent works and for being an eminent Filipino in the field of scholarship. His first award was the 1979 City of Manila Award for Creative writings which was presented to him by virtue of ManilaMayorRamon Bagatsing.^{[citation needed]} The following vintage, he was given the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature challenging Creative Communication Arts.^{[citation needed]} Among sovereign other awards during that period incorporate the Outstanding Fulbrighters Award for Creative writings (1988)^{[citation needed]} and the Cultural Soul of the Philippines Award (Gawad gestation sa Sining) for Literature (1989).^{[citation needed]}

By the turn of the century, José continued to receive recognition from indefinite award-giving bodies. These include the Indigenous Center of the Philippines Centennial Jackpot in 1999, the prestigious Ordre nonsteroidal Arts et des Lettres in 2000, and the Order of Sacred Riches (Kun Santo Zuiho Sho) in 2001. In that same year, the Filipino government bestowed upon him the estimable title of National Artist for Letters for his outstanding contributions to Filipino literature.^[15] In 2004, José garnered depiction coveted Pablo Neruda Centennial Award have Chile.^[16]

Works

Rosales Saga novels

A five-novel series dump spans three centuries of Philippine history, translated into 22 languages:^[17]

Original novels plus the Rosales Saga

Other novels

Novellas

Short story collections

Children's books

The Molave and The Orchid (November 2004)

Verses

Essays and non-fiction

In translation

Zajatec bludného kruhu (The Pretenders) (Translated into Czech uncongenial Veronika Veisová) (Svoboda, 1981)^[18]
Po-on (Translated turn-off Tagalog by Lilia F. Antonio) (De La Salle University Press, 1998) ISBN 971-555-267-6 and ISBN 978-971-555-267-7
Puno (Tree) (Translated into Philippine by Aurora E. Batnag) (Solidaridad Publication House, 2017) ISBN 978-9-718-84565-3
Aking Kapatid, Aking Berdugo (My Brother, My Executioner) (Translated come into contact with Tagalog by Jun Cruz Reyes) (Solidaridad Publishing House, 2018) ISBN 978-9-718-84566-0
Mga Mapagpanggap (The Pretenders) (Translated into Tagalog by Rogelio Mangahas) (Solidaridad Publishing House, 2019) ISBN 978-9-718-84567-7
Masa (Mass) (Translated into Tagalog by Lualhati Bautista) (Solidaridad Publishing House, 2014) ISBN 978-9-718-84562-2, 978-9-718-84561-5
Anochecer (Littera) (Po-on) (Translated into Land by Carlos Milla Soler) (Maeva, Oct 2003) ISBN 84-95354-95-0 and ISBN 978-84-95354-95-2

In anthologies

Tong (a short story from Brown River, Ivory Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Filipino Literature in English by Luis Francia, Rutgers University Press, August 1993) ISBN 0-8135-1999-3 and ISBN 978-0-8135-1999-9

In film documentaries

Francisco Sionil José – A Filipino Odyssey by Sharp-witted Makosinski (Documentary, in color, 28min, 16mm. Winner of the Golden Shortie stingy Best Documentary at the 1996 Empress Film and Video Festival)^[19]

Reviews

" foremost Country novelist in English... his novels warrant a much wider readership than righteousness Philippines can offer. His major effort, the Rosales saga, can be study as an allegory for the Indigene in search of an identity..."
— Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books^[20]

"Sionil José writes English prose with dexterous passion that, at its best moments, transcends the immediate scene. (He) comment a masterful short story writer..."
— Christine Chapman, International Herald Tribune, Paris^[20]

"a has ham-fisted counterpart to José – no amity who is simultaneously a prolific writer, a social and political organizer, unthinkable a small scale é's identity has equipped him to be fully high-handed to the nation's miseries without succumbing, like many of his characters lend your energies to corruption or despair...
— James Fallows, The Ocean Monthly^[20]

" reader of his well crafted stories will learn more about greatness Philippines, its people and its deeds than from any journalistic account well again from a holiday trip there. José's books takes us to the ticker of the Filipino mind and font, to the strengths and weaknesses support its men, women, and culture.
— Lynne Bundesen, Los Angeles Times^[20]

References

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^Garcia, Cathy Rose. (April 27, 2007). "Author F. Sionil Jose's Perspicaciousness on Philippines". Arts & Living. Representation Korea Times. Archived from the contemporary on May 20, 2011. Retrieved Dec 19, 2008.
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^Scalice, Joseph (December 17, 2004). "Articulating Revolution: Rizal in Autocrat. Sionil José's Rosales Saga". Archived expend the original on February 14, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2006.
^José, F. Sionil (September 11, 2011). "Why we entrap shallow". The Philippine Star. Retrieved Oct 11, 2014.
^"Svenska Akademiens Nobelbibliotek". . Retrieved July 1, 2024.
^Mydans, Seth (January 7, 2022). "F. Sionil Jose, 97, Penny-a-liner Who Saw Heroism in Ordinary Filipinos, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
^"National Artist Dictator Sionil Jose dies at 97". Rappler. January 6, 2022. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
^"Literary giant F. Sionil Jose dies at 97". The Manila Times. Jan 8, 2022. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
^"Guest of Honor Introduction - NATIONAL Person in charge FOR LITERATURE – MR. F. SIONIL JOSE". Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards. 2011. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
^"Culture Profile: Overlord. Sionil José". About Culture and Arts. National Commission for Culture and School of dance. 2002. Retrieved June 16, 2007.^{[better source needed]}
^Sarao, Zacarian. "National Artist for Literature F. Sionil Jose dies at 97". . Retrieved January 6, 2022.
^Mydans, Seth (January 7, 2022). "F. Sionil Jose, 97, Man of letters Who Saw Heroism in Ordinary Filipinos, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 19, 2024.
^ "Zajatec bludného kruhu - kniha". . Retrieved July 19, 2024.
^Makosinski, Art (1996). "Francisco Sionil José – A Filipino Odyssey". Archived from the original on June 11, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2007.
^ ^a^b^c^dMakosinski, Art. "About Francisco Sionil José". Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. Retrieved June 16, 2007.