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Carlos Bulosan

Died in 1956

Carlos Bulosan was born around 1911 in Binalonan, in the province of Pangasinan, into a peasant family. Having emigrated to the United States in 1930, he worked in the fish canneries of the far north and in the fields of California, then organised unions of Filipino workers. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1936, he spent two years in hospital in Los Angeles. His collection The Laughter of My Father, in 1944, made him known. Blacklisted in the fifties, he died in Seattle on 11 September 1956.

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