Editor and writer Francisco Sionil José was a champion for the social struggles the Filipino people.
A pioneer in his ways. Sionil José founded the Philippine Center of PEN International in 1957. In 1965, Sionil José and his wife, Teresita, founded the Solidaridad Bookshop and Publishing House in Ermita, Manila. In 1967, he established Solidarity, a journal that enabled writers, artists, politicians, scholars, and political and social activists from Asia and the Pacific region to share their works before a wider audience. In 1968, he founded Solidaridad Galleries, which provided young Filipino artists with opportunities to showcase their works. ( source Philippines university)
Sionil José is the winner of many awards including Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, Ramon Magsaysay Award and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his short stories and novels,
His most popular Rosales Saga is a five-novel epic that narrates the lives of different generations of the Samsons and how they deal with the social struggles of the country.
The God Stealer
The God Stealer is a short story which shows the ethnic people of Ifugao Province , a landlocked province of the Philippines. The plot centers on one of the local people stealing a statue, and how a friendship reveals cultural identities .
An American and a Filipino go to the Cordilleras to look at the rice terraces which were built by the Filipinos’ ancestors. There they find the meaning of their friendship, how it defines the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised.
An American and a Filipino go to the Cordilleras to look at the rice terraces which were built by the Filipinos’ ancestors. There they find the meaning of their friendship, how it defines the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised.
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