Francisco arcellana biography and works

          Full name: Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana.

          Biography.!

          Francisco Arcellana

          Filipino writer (1916–2002)

          Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher.

          Biography

          Francisco Arcellana was born on September 6, 1916. He already had ambitions of becoming a writer early in his childhood.

          Francisco Arcellana, writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and teacher, is one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in.

        1. Francisco Arcellanais a writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, is one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story.
        2. Biography.
        3. Francisco Arcellana was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher born in in Manila.
        4. Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (Zacarias Eugene Francisco Quino Arcellana) was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher.

          5. His actual writing, however, started when he became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high school years. Arcellana continued writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

          Later on he received a Rockefeller Grant and became a fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference from 1956– 1957.[2][3]

          He is considered an important progenitor of the modern Filipino short story in English.

          Arcellana pioneered the development of the short story as a lyrical prose-poetic form within Filipino literature. His works are now often taught in tertiary-level sylla