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F. Sionil José

Born

in Rosales, Pangasinan, Philippines

December 03, 1924

Died

January 06, 2022

Website

http://www.fsioniljose.tk/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Francisco Sionil José was born in 1924 in Pangasinan province and attended the public school in his hometown. He attended the University of Santo Tomas after World War II and in 1949, started his career in writing. Since then, his fiction has been published internationally and translated into several languages including his native Ilokano. He has been involved with the international cultural organizations, notably International P.E.N., the world association of poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists whose Philippine Center he founded in 1958.

F. Sionil José, the Philippines' most widely translated author, is known best for his epic work, the Rosales saga - five novels encompassing a hundred years of Philippine history - a vivid documenta ...more

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A Conversation with Adolf Azcuna

A conversation with Adolf Azcuna: His legacy & 'The Writ of Amparo'
HINDSIGHT By F Sionil Jose Updated June 14, 2009 12:00 AM

Associate Justice Adolf Azcuna of the Supreme Court

Since my bookshop is within walking distance from the Department of Justice, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, every so often, my customers are mandarins of the legal profession who, for so many years, have also rei Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.06 · 7,249 ratings · 608 reviews · 55 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dusk (Rosales Saga, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 1,443 ratings — published 1984 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ermita 4.21 avg rating — 791 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Brother, My Executioner (Rosales Saga, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 661 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pretenders (Rosales Saga, #4) 4.10 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 1962 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tree (Rosales Saga, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 610 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mass (Rosales Saga, #5) 4.07 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gagamba: The Spider Man 3.95 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viajero (A Filipino Novel) 4.10 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ben Singkol 4.16 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Puppy Love and Thirteen Short Stories 3.81 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.”
― F. Sionil José, Ermita

tags: issues, philippines, poverty, prostitution, social, women

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“We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.”
― F. Sionil José, In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

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“Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.”
― F. Sionil Jose

tags: destiny, love

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These Oceanian-Asian authors have strong literary reputations. Reading over their Wiki descriptions, below, which author would you like to read several books from in 2015?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Sioni... (Rosales Saga novels)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Gr... (Phryne Fisher detective novels)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Gre...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramoedy... (Buru Quartet)

Last day to participate is the day prior to December 2.
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Richard Flanagan

10 votes, 43.5%

F. Sionil José

7 votes, 30.4%

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

3 votes, 13.0%

Kerry Greenwood

2 votes, 8.7%

Kate Grenville

1 vote, 4.3%

23 total votes

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