F. Sionil José

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Francisco Sionil José (born December 3, 1924 in Rosales , † January 6, 2022 in Makati City ) was a Filipino writer who wrote in English . His novels and short stories deal with the social foundations of class struggle and colonialism in Filipino society. José's texts have been translated into 22 languages.

F. Sionil José (2017)

Life

childhood

José was born in Rosales in 1924, where many of his stories are set. He spent his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan . It was there that he began to write. His ancestry is Ilokano , but his family moved to Pangasinan to escape poverty before he was born .

An important influence for José was his mother Sofia Sionil, who procured books for him, although she also had to take care of the family's food, which was constantly threatened by poverty. She supported the family by sewing after their father, a Philippine Independent Church priest , left the family. He started writing in elementary school when he was just learning to read. In the fifth grade, one of José's teachers made the school library accessible to her students, where he read novels by José Rizal ( Noli me tangere and El Filibusterismo ), Willa Cather ( My Ántonia ), William Faulkner , John Steinbeck and Miguel de Cervantes ( Don Quixote ) read. These works influenced the content and form of his later works. The portrayal of injustice in Rizal's Noli me tangere moved him to tears. At the age of five, his illiterate grandfather who had been a soldier during the Filipino Revolution had shown him land that had once belonged to the family but was then taken by wealthy landowners. José was one of five children.

Next life

José attended the University of Santo Tomas after the Second World War , but soon dropped out and lived as a writer and journalist in Manila . In the following years he published various literary and journalistic texts, founded the magazine Solidarity and his own publishing house as well as the Philippine branch of the writers' association PEN. He has received numerous prizes for his work. His best-known novel is The Pretenders , the story of a man's alienation from his poor background and the decadence of his wife's rich family.

Throughout his career, José has advocated social justice and improved living conditions for average Filipino families in his texts. Internationally he was one of the most famous Filipino writers. However, he was less popular in his home country because of his use of Filipino English and anti-elite views.

In addition to his writing activities, he also ran a bookstore in the Ermita district of Manila, which sells books and literature that are difficult to obtain in the Philippines and which was very well known among Filipino authors.

Awards

factories

Rosales saga novels

(A series of five novels spanning three centuries of Filipino history and translated into 22 languages ​​worldwide)

Novels that the Rosales Saga contained

Other novels

Volumes of stories

Children's books

  • The Molave ​​and The Orchid (November 2004)

Poetry

  • Questions (1988)

Essays and non-fiction books

literature

  • Edwin Thuboo (Ed.): Frankie Sionil José: A Tribute . Times Academic Press, Singapore 2005, ISBN 981-210-425-9 and ISBN 978-981-210-425-0
  • Miguel A. Bernard (Ed.): Conversations with F. Sionil José . Vera-Reyes Publishing Inc., Philippines 1991
  • Alfredo T. Morales: F. Sionil José and His Fiction . Vera-Reyes Publishing Inc., Philippines
  • Hergen Albus: The Rosales Saga by Francisco Sionil Jose: Postcolonial Discourses in the Works of a Filipino Author . SEACOM, Berlin 2009
  • Rainer Werning : The pen is no more powerful than the sword: the writer Francisco Sionil José. In: Handbook Philippines. Society, politics, economy, culture. Bad Honnef 2006, ISBN 3-89502-218-7 , pp. 294-297

Web links

Commons : F. Sionil José  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. National Artist F Sionil Jose dies at 97. In: rappler.com. January 6, 2022, accessed January 6, 2022 .
  2. a b c d e f F. Sionil José: Sense of the City: Manila . BBC News, BBC.co.uk, July 30, 2003, as seen on August 24, 2009
  3. a b c d e f Author Spotlight: F. Sionil Jose . Random House, RandomHouse.com, as viewed August 24, 2009
  4. a b c d e f Priscilla Supnet Macansantos: A Hometown as Literature for F. Sionil José ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Global Nation / Features, Inquirer, Inquirer.net, April 25, 2007, viewed August 24, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / globalnation.inquirer.net
  5. a b c d e f Leopoldo Y. Yabes and Judson Knight: Francisco Sionil Jose Biography . Contemporary Novelists, Volume 16, Jrank.org, accessed August 24, 2009
  6. Cathy Rose A. Garcia: Author F. Sionil Jose's Insight on Philippines (article on the novel Ermita ) , Arts & Living, The Korea Times, KoreaTimes.co.kr, viewed August 24, 2009
  7. Cathy Rose Garcia: Author F. Sionil Jose's Insight on Philippines (article on the novel Ermita ) , BookAsia.org, viewed August 24, 2009