Francisco Arcellana
In this blog we will get to know
about “Francisco Arcellana”. One of the famous Filipino author in the time of
1950’s. In this generation, or what they called the millenniums, most of them didn’t know about Francisco Arcellana or
also known as “Franz”.
In his time Franz was a Filipino writer,
poet, essayist, journalist and also a teacher at the same time. He is the
fourth out of 18 children’s of Jose Arcellana and Epifanio Quino. He was
married to a beautiful lady named Emerenciana Yuvienco. They had six children.
Juaniyo, one of their children became an essayist, poet, and fictionist just
like his father.
Francisco Arcellana entered
University of the Philippines (UP) in 1932 as a pre-medicine student and he graduated
in 1939 with a bachelor of philosophy in degree. While he was in a junior year
at University of the Philippines, he was invited to join the UP writers club by
a quarterly of experimental writing.
Franz entered medical school after
he received his bachelor degree in University of the Philippines while holding
his job in Herald Midweek Magazine, where is weekly column in “Art and Life”. After
the war, he continued working in media and publishing and started his career in
academe. He became a manager in International News Service and the editor of This Week. He joined the UP Department
of English and Comparative Literature and served as adviser of the Philippine
Collegian also a director of the UP Creative Writing Center.
Arcellana published his first story
entitled “The Man Who Could Be Poe” while he is a student at Torres High
School. After two years two of his short stories “Death is a Factory” and “Lina”
that is included in Jose Garcia Villa’s honor roll.
Some of his works have been translated
into Tagalog, Malaysian, Italian, German, and Russian.
These are the list of his works:
· The
Other Woman
· I
Wait For You
· To
Touch You
· Prayer
reference: http://www.poemhunter.com/francisco-arcellana/biography/
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