A.

Name of writer:
Gregorio Taer Affiano
B. Biography:
Born: Vigan, Ilocos Sur; November 17, 1934. Fictionist, teacher.
He is the son of Esteban Amano and Olympia Taer. He obtained his
education degree from the Philippine College of Arts and Trades in
Manila. He was later granted a scholarship under the Colombo Plan to
study in Tokyo, Japan. He taught at the University of Northern
Philippines in Vigan, became principal then chief of the Education
Department if the Ilocos Norte College of Arts and Trade (now a college
of Don Mariano Marcos State University) in Laoag City. He is a member
of Gunglo Dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano (GUMIL) Laoag, GUMIL Ilocos
Norte and GUMIL Filipinas. He is at present a professor and
administrator at the Don Mariano Marcos State University.

Amano began writing in Ilocano in 1957.That same year, his poem

“Arado” was published in Bannawag. Since then, he has published many
poems, essays on practical arts, and short stories in the same magazine.
His best-known stories are “Dimo Koma Biroken Ti Kaasida” (Do Not
Look For Their Mercy), “Talna” (Peace), and “Bubon” (Well). Some of his
works were anthologized in Tugot (Foot-prints), edited by Onofrecia I.
Ibarra and Hermenegildo A.Viloria and published by GUMIL Ilocos Sur. A
former editor of the Philippine Educational Journal, he has also
authorized four popular books on practical arts.

In 1986 he won first prize in the short story writing contest in the Gov
Roque Ablan Awards for Iluko Literature
C. Education:
He obtained his education degree from the Philippine College of Arts and
Trades in Manila. He was later granted a scholarship under the Colombo Plan to
study in Tokyo, Japan.
D. Works:
 Poem: “Arado” was published in Bannawag (1957)
 Best-known stories: “Dimo Koma Biroken Ti Kaasida” (Do
Not Look For Their Mercy), “Talna” (Peace), and “Bubon”
(Well)
E. Awards:
 Won first prize in the short story writing contest in the Gov
Roque Ablan Awards for Iluko Literature (1986)
F. Greatest Contribution in Literature:
A former editor of the Philippine Educational Journal, he has also
authorized four popular books on practical arts. He is a member of Gunglo
Dagiti Mannurat nga Ilokano (GUMIL Ilocos Norte and GUMIL Filipinas.

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A. Name of Writer:
Carlos Bulosan

B. Biography:
Carlos Bulosan was a prolific writer and poet, best remembered as
the author of America Is in the Heart, a landmark semi-autobiographical
story about the Filipino immigrant experience. Bulosan gained recognition
in mainstream American society with the 1944 publication of Laughter of
my Father, which was excerpted in the New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and
Town and Country. He immigrated to America from the Philippines in
1930, endured horrendous conditions as a laborer, became active in the
labor movement, and was blacklisted along with other labor radicals
during the 1950s. He spent his last years in Seattle, jobless, penniless,
and in poor health.
According to his baptismal records, Bulosan was born in
Pangasinan Province in the Philippine Islands on November 2, 1911. But
other sources give Bulosan’s birth date three to four years later. This is
just one example of conflicting versions of his younger years in a peasant
family with three brothers and two sisters. The family farm was sold,
hectare by hectare, to pay for boat fare for his older brothers’ passages to
the United States.

C. Education:
American Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies classes.

D. Works:
 America Is in the Heart
 The Laughter of My Father
 The Cry and the Dedication
 My Father's Tragedy
 The Romance of Magno Rubio
 If You Want To Know What We Are
 My Father goes to Court

E. Awards:
o chronicler of the Filipino American experience during the 1930s - early
1950s
o he is best remembered for his semi-fictional
o semi-autobiographical novel America Is In the Heart (1946)

F. Greatest contrinution:
He rose from poverty to become a labor movement activist and a
literary voice for Filipino Americans. He is best known for his novel,
"America Is in the Heart," published in 1946.