F. Sionil José

Francisco Sionil José was born on 3 December 1924 in Rosales, in the province of Pangasinan, into a family of Ilocano peasants who had come from the north. A journalist, he edited magazines in Manila and Hong Kong, founded the Solidaridad bookshop in 1965 and, the following year, the magazine of the same name. He wrote some thirty books, received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1980, was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2000 and National Artist for Literature the following year. He died on 6 January 2022 in Makati, aged ninety-seven.

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