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The Rogelio Sikat biography and some of his achievements.
ROGELIO SIKAT BIOGRAPHY &#; Here are some of the things you might to know about Rogelio Sikat and his achievements.
A prolific Filipino novelist, playwright, and short story writer Rogelio Sikat, who wrote numerous masterpieces that won an award. For his pen name, he uses &#;Sikat&#; but in reality, his real surname is &#;Sicat&#;. He was born in in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, his hometown. In the s, he left to pursue his degree in journalism at the University of Santo Tomas.
Sikat is the sixth of eight children of Estanislao Sikat and Crisanta Rodriguez. He was a campus writer and literary editor of The Varsitarian and one of the pioneers of fiction writing in the Philippines. He is one of the most distinguished and finest modern literary figures. Apart from that, he was also an educator.
He also taught as a professor at the University of the Philippines’ College of Arts and Letters and was a dean of the same institutio
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Rogelio Sicat (or Sikat), often referred to as “one of the greatest pioneers of Philippine fiction”, along other young writers in the s, chose to write in Tagalog in deliberate reaction to the literature written in English during the American occupation. Sixty years after his Bleeding Sun was written, this translation by his daughter Maria Aurora is a step towards making Sicat’s work more accessible not just beyond the archipelago but also within, where for three-quarters of the population (including me), Tagalog is not the mother tongue.
Bleeding Sun is the story of an illiterate rice farmer Tano and his son Simon. Simon’s mother dies at childbirth when Señor Borja, the only man who has a car in San Roque, refused to lend it for the emergency trip to hospital. When Tano, a tenant farmer, was getting old and became ill, his Spanish landlord Isauro Regente summarily dismisses him from the land he has tilled for forty years. The landlord also refuses his request to pass the tenan