This month's featured is not your typical children's author. In fact, he is more known for his work in more serious kind of literature and therefore, in somewhat colder topics -- a style he had to change up a bit to be able to produce several children's stories.F. Sionil José or Francisco Sionil José in full (born December 3, 1924) is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language. He has received numerous awards for his works. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino society. His works have been translated into 22 languages including Korean, Indonesian, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch.
José was born in Rosales, Pangasinan (the setting of many of his stories). He spent his childhood in Barrio Cabugawan where he first began to write. One of the greatest influences to José was his industrious mother who went out of her way to get him the books he loved to read while making sure her family did not go hungry despite poverty and landlessness.
He started writing in grade school at the same time he started reading. In the fifth grade, one of José’s teachers opened the school library to her students which is how José managed to read the novels of José Rizal, Willa Cather’s My Antonia, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Reading about Basilio and Crispin in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere made the young José cry since injustice was not an alien thing to him.José attended the University of Santo Tomas after World War II but dropped out and plunged into writing and journalism in Manila.
The Molave and the Orchid and Other Children's Stories features four stories crafted by the country's foremost novelist is available for library use only at the Grade School Learning Resource Center in Divine Light Academy Las Piñas. If you have any questions, you can always ask the librarians or staff members available. :)
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