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Victorino Abellanosa
Dramatist Victorino Abellanosa is the brother of Ramon and Onofre Abellanosa. Born in Pardo on December 23, 1903, the son of Baldomero Abellanosa, a well-known composer in Pardo. He started writing plays in 1921 and has to his credit some 20 plays, mostly zarzuelas, including Ninoy, Marti, King Solomon, and others. His plays have been […]
Florentino Suico
Florentino Suico was born in Mandaue on March 14, 1902. He studied at the Mandaue Elementary School and Cebu High School. He took up Pre-Law at UE and UST while working at the Bureau of Aeronautics in Manila. He started writing at 21, contributing fiction, poems, and articles to various periodicals. Edited Bag-ong Kusog (1928); […]
Vicente Rama
Born in Cebu City on the 6th of June 1887 and died on the 24th of December 1956. Fictionist. He studied at the Seminario-Colegio de San Carlos in Cebu, 1904-1908, and finished law at the Escuela de Derecho, 1908-1910, in Manila. After his studies, he actively engaged in writing and politics. He served as Cebu […]
Laurean Unabia
Laurean Unabia was born in Dansalan, Lanao del Sur, Mindanao on July 4, 1921. He had his undergraduate studies of A.B. English in the University of the Visayas, Cebu City. While he was working in Manila for the Manila Bulletin, he took up Law in FEU but reached only the third year. Laurean Unabia used […]
Marcel Navarra
Marcel M. Navarra (1914-1984) is known as “The Father of Modern Cebuano Literature.” He was born in Tuyom, Carcar. He spent most of his life writing almost 80 short stories which were published in Cebuano magazines; namely, Bisaya, Alimyon and Bulak. His first story, Tungod sa Kayagang, was published in Nasud in 1931. His best-known […]
Nicolas Rafols
Nicolas Mercado Rafols Jr was born in Toledo, Cebu in 1894 and died on May 2, 1947. He was a poet and fictionist. His parents are Ignacia Mercado and Nicolas Rafols Sr, a Spanish mestizo who was one of those responsible for opening up the Toledo area to large-scale commercial agriculture. He studied in […]
Pres. Sergio Osmeña Sr.
Sergio Osmeña Sr. was born in Cebu on September 9, 1898. He studied at Seminario Colegio de San Carlos in 1889; took up law at the University of Sto. Tomas. He was a publisher of El Nuevo Dia and passed the bar in 1903. He became the Governor of Cebu (1906), Assemblyman (1907), Senate President […]